Last night we checked into "Horizon Suites" which is aparment style housing, and I'm rooming with two other guys. One I get along with great, the other dated Hayley for two years -- the drama shall prove to be very exciting I shall say! After arriving last night about 19:00, we went to a shopping mall and bought lots of food and groceries since we have a small kitchen and a few appliances. Then I Hayley and I went out to dinner at this small restaurant. I mention this for two unique reasons - one, the restaurant was open until 2:00 in the morning which we thought was cool and thus closed the place down; and two, the waitress was really nice and picked us out two great traditional and popular chinese dishes. Let me say, chinese food here is NOT american-chinese food, and I don't know what I'll do when we come home and there is no chinese-chinese food to be eaten! haha. Anyways, tomorrow we tour the Chinese University where we will be studying "Arts of China" for the next month.
Now let me regress... On November 11th we flew from Bangalore to New Delhi, and I was able to meet up with Morgan, Alexis, and Robyn! Ahhhh! So much fun was had! Hayley and I spent the evening/night with them at a restaurant and then a roof top for tea. It was good to catch up, swap stories, and share adventures. We left Delhi at 1:00 in the morning on November 14th, and landed in Bangkok, Thailand at about 7:00 in the morning.
The first two days in Bangkok were spent touring and seeing the city - loved it! Thailand has been my favorite country so far I think, and we were only there for one week! ((I'm sure I will love HK just as much.)) The following day Hayley, Lianna, Chris and I left for Koh Chang (an island about a 40 mintues plane ride southeast of Bangkok) for our fall break for a week - the entire group split off and did whatever they wanted... We had bungalows which were right against the water overlooking the beautiful Sea of Thailand (as we liked to call it) which faced west -- providing some of the most gorgeous sunsets I've ever seen. ((All this for about US $20 a person per night -- we've learned things are very cheap in many parts of the world; just not Europe!)) We spent a week there together at an Island resort including elephant trekking! By far one of the COOLEST expierences of my life. We were able to ride on the elephants head! And also get in the water and swim with the elephants. It was so amazing! I've decided I love Pai Tai, a traditional Thai dish served with everything from chicken to pork to seafood. And after a week on the island, we came back to Bangkok for a fun night at an exciting market place. Pictures to follow -- I hope!
Side notes: I got all my classes that I wanted so I was VERY excited about that (props to Papa Schantz for being my proxy and doing my registering). Also, I exciting thing for the past week was inducing Malaria in myself (took too many Malarone, the anti-Malaria medicine which works by giving you a little bit of the disease to act as an anti-body to help fight off an infection...) Anyways, I was bed ridden for two days in Bangkok with a 102 degree fever and all the works that go along with it....but I must say Thai clinics are amazing and give very good - albeit sketchy - medicine. I was ok for a couple days, then decided to go into remission half way through vacation and puked instead of being able to go diving :-( not cool... But, I am alive and well, all better for the wears and tears and feeling 100% so have no worries!
I miss you all very much, I am very excited for the last two months of this big adventure but also excited to return home and see everyone. Lots of love and good thoughts in your directions from the other side of the world!
CM
PS. HK is 14 hours ahead of CST.
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