Forbes, Miranda and co.

So this hospital deal is a wee bit annoying. Every time I go (three times so far and an appointment on Wednesday) I pretty much pray that the doctor won't hand me another one of those stupid appointment slips. The first time I assumed I wouldn't get one but they just keep on coming. Do my eyes really need another shot of air? How many times can I read an eye chart while holding a spoon up to my face? And most importantly in how many ways can I say "maime jip daa?"

Anyways the other night on one of our rare days off a bunch of people went to the Pullman, a 5-star hotel downtown. I wasn't originally going to spend the night but then a bunch of people got a hotel room all together so it's only like $15 a person for a kickass room. Not that it's all that expensive anyways, I think if two people shared a room it cost them $40 a pop.

So the hotel has a bar with homebrewed beer. For 300 baht AKA $9 you can get unlimited drinks. That was fun. Post that fun it took a billion hours to find a restaurant (some of us didn't want the ultra expensive AKA $20 buffet at the hotel). We found a place that had ok jey stuff but other than that.. Lisa's chicken sandwich was actually ham.

Thing were pretty chill at the hotel so Becca, Luke and I had the great idea to go to 7/11 and get some booze. And by some booze I mean two bottles of local yokel whiskey, 4 bottles of 22 oz beer and a bottle of 30 cent wineish beer grossness. Things kind of dissipated through out the night and we ended up watching music videos until 1am with some people and then went back to the room to go to bed when things got crazy.

One fateful turn of the channel brought us "Species The Awakening." It's pretty much the most intense, most life changing movie experience ever. So that happened until 4am. We literally could not stop watching, discussing, and truely experiencing this movie. I can't believe the three other people in the room slept through our commentary.

Anyways so Sam came to the room at 4:30am and invited us out to a place where I quote "is a big white room with a dj and lights and thai people and music that goes 'bump bump bump." We said no. He left. 30 seconds later Luke, Becca and I were on our feet meeting him in the lobby with a bottle of whiskey.

Sam's description was freakishly accurate. The club was just full of Thai people on drugs raving. We drank the bottle of whiskey. Danced with the first attractive Thai male I've met thus far. Things were pretty ridiculous. At 6:30am we decided to leave so we could see the sunrise. By the time we got outside it was already bright and sunny very strange feeling.

We ate breakfast and I napped for maybe 30 minutes before I left for KKU cause I spent the day back at the landfill community. From 11-5pm I was at the landfill chilling. It was awesome to see my host brother and my meh. Then I facilitated a check-in meeting for the interest group we created to address some of the issues within the landfill community. Then I ate french fries and banana chocolate sandwiches and blueberry tea with Muriel. Things were good. I slept. That was good.

So that's where I'm at right now. In a couple of days I'll be back in Nongjan the illegal forrest community we spent a night in for the very first homestay. We'll be writing a human rights report on their issues. Should be a quality/busy time.

Also I found granola and my life is significantly better.