The forbiddens

Sorry, I got no time to post a proper update. But this is just to say, We have reached our last day in Bangkok. This afternoon we jump onto a night train and go steaming of to Chang Mai!

What to expect when I get more time:

The ancient city.

Crocodiles being poked with sticks.

Jess falling off a bike.

A store owner giving me advice on how to learn the language. "Find a Thai girlfriend."

Huge flooding on the way to McDonalds.

Teaching our students to become Infomurcial hosts.

And J dropping a heavy pot of Punch on his head.... No Im not going to do a bad joke about how it was a heavy hitter... Jeeze. I have my honour to think about.

Getting around.

Zac, Me, and Jo. woop woop.

Well Its been about a week since I last posted. I guess its time to lay some cards on the table. (Double or nothing)


I got a DS! Woohoo! For all of you who don't know what that is, well don't worry because you wont care if you do figure out what it is. I got it from this huge mall. Which I swear is dedicated souly to electronics. Us guys were prime targets. Everyone was screaming at us to buy games. Which I must admit were uber cheap. 4 bucks at most places. Ds games were about 2$. So I got ten. lol


We also went up the tallest tower In Bangkok, even way up 77 stories you couldn't see were bangkok ends. It just continues to spread out like a beautiful ulcer on the face of the planet.


Today me and Zac found a McDonalds. Their burgers actually look like the picture. Unlike in NZ, where it looks like they punched the burger before putting it into the box.


Over the week some of us have been assigned rolls. Jo was the leader, I was the prayer warrior, and Beth was head photographer. The prayer warrior basically does all the main praying for the team, before we go places, for people, for the start of the day. It was really good. I enjoyed it eminsly. Quite an experience initself. And whenever prayers are answered its like "WOOT! You totally actually wanna listen God, cheers so much."





Today is Kings birthday or something, so all the stores are closed, meaning we can't photocopy our teaching resources for tonight. Were so screwed, lol, Oh well. We have been making our class write stories, to help them work on their grammer and terminology. Its pretty fun to read their stories.

new pixs

yay, Thankyou zac, for hosting the pictures which now adorn all the thailand posts so far. Their all a little out of context with whats being posted, but thats ok, their only meant to be eye candy while you read the funnies. Oh yea, the computers at the dorm have flash, so I was able to create a new background image. enjoy. And have a nice day. or night, depending on what sorta person you are. If your a morning person I hope you dont get killed by the cranky night people. Because while their waking up and being noresponsive, your trying to talk to them and have a deep and meaningful, and they don't appreciate that. So leave them alone. hint... hint.

Apparently this morning Beu, one of the guys in our room was having a dream, he spazzed out and woke everyone up. He was like kicking and stuff. lol?

Today Me, Jo, and Zac went and bought a pizza. It was totally made from scratch in front of us. It took forever to get, but it was worth it, there were these nice sofas to sit on while we waited. Really relaxed ai... Now I gotta find a pic to put on THIS post.. dang it..

Boom, done.

English Lessons

Woo. Just finished doing the english lessons tonight. It totally wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm so glad I have Beth. She. Is. AMAZING. like a natural born teacher. unlike me, whos more like a test tube grown teacher... which went wrong. lol
Some of the Others screwed up in some funny ways. At one point I was like "So what do you, as thai, do as a family?" This was meant to be preping into a new lesson. They were like "...nothing." "oh... Are you sure?" "...Yes." ".. Crud."
Jess was trying to pronounce one of her girls names. She said Tui, which means dog. Then she said Tui in a slightly different pitch and that meant water buffalo. Lol. OF course, in thai, T comes out more like D. so it was really Dui. Anyway. Ill catch ya'll up. we used up our internet time. Sorry for the short post.

Church Thai Styles

This isnt a thai church. Its the Kings palace. So if anything its a buhdist temple. Very buhdist.

So I spent my first night at the hostel. It was... Uncomfortable. Not because of the hard beds that sound like they are full of hay and plastic bags. their fine. them being hospitable and turning on the AC above my bed, that was great to! They know how much it fries in a cramped room with four dudes in it. Waking up to said AC freezing me like a bag of black bananas on the other hand not so much. And then the toilet filling back up in the background. It took me all night to figure out it wasn't an electronic wine. It was just water going through a very small hole or something. lol
ah well. Woke up at 7.. Lay in bed for ages. We walked to church and helped set up at about 9. Geu, our main host (He's been to Teowmutu!) translated the bible study for us. I haven't seen revelation being taught in a church before. Very cool. Their worship songs are just as cool as ours. Sorry Chris, its mostly hillsong, sung in thai. So at least you wont hear the theologically wrong lyrics. lolololol.
They have a cool style of prayer over here. I know they do it in a few other countries to. Its so awesome. Everyone just prays at the same time. And then fantasmically everyone just quietens down at the same time and someone finishes up the prayer. so cool. We should do it more often to. Its a lil awkward at first but you'l get used to praying over each other. Don't worry, God can hear you at any volume.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, Their church services go till about 4 in the afternoon. So we spent all day at church. It wasn't that bad actually. We had all sorts of people there. Koreans preached in english, while A thai translated. It was crack up. the speaker kept going into korean by accident. Or it may have been Thai. Who knows.
Later on all the guys (Me, Jason, Zac, and the crew from the dorms) all went out and played soccer outside the huge stadium in bangkok. There are tons of people all just setting up goals all over the place. It was great. It didn't feel weird at all, playing soccer on the landing of the huge steps up, with a few chunks of concrete (Taken from the side of the road) with no shirt on. Oh yea, It was so good being on the no shirts team. Just standing there made water want to evacuate from every pore in your skin.
Tomorrow we do lessons. heh heh.
Mood: apprehensive.
Currently Listening to: For the moments I feel Faint - Relient K.

I NEED TO GO!

Dont worry. The title isn't as urgent as it seems. Let me explain.. using copy and paste, from an email I sent but moments ago!
We were coming back on the train earlier today, from Lop Buri to Bangkok. Getting into the taxi we had no idea what was about to happen and the events that were about to unfold..... (Fortunatly I had my trusty hat.)

.... Oh man, me and zac got lost again. Our taxi didn't know where we were going and took us to the train station instead of the university. He was desperatly running up and down the road looking for an english speaker. And just to make it more frantic I was desperate to go toilet even before we got in the taxi. Ema rang up and said we were going in the wrong direction. That was the moment I dispeared and was like "ILL NEVER MAKE IT!" zac: "Youl make it dont worry!" "Oh no I won't, im busting. Driver, excuse me, toilet! Toilet? bathroom? Do you know what I mean?... No... oh man oh man oh man." I even took off my belt and was ready to ditch out onto the road and run into a park. the driver was getting very worried. He was like "five minute. only five minute." and Im still panicing going "I don't HAVE five minutes!" XDBut I made it! I begged my way into a seven elevens toilet. Thank goodness they knew what I meant. They were all cracking up at the distraught big falang going "Toilet toilet TOILET TOIlet toiLET. toiiiiiileeeeet."phew.. thats my High tention story for you today. =).

The girls are just down the road in the girls hostels, us guys are hanging out in the guys hostel now on the computers. Im a little freaked out. Monday we start our english lessons. It'll be the first one. Heres hoping I don't mess up!

p.s. I found this bottle of colouring lotion just now. Its so thai can look more western by having lighter coloured skin. But this is what it says under the logo in a small font. "Being born again into attractive woman in the sea." .... You be the judge.

shop keepers

Man, this internet cafe is located in a sauna or something I swear. Theres one fan, and its pointed at the desk in which the owner parks himself. Its rather amusing to see the way shop keepers act around here. Youl peer into their dinky little store and they'l be lounging around somewhere totally random. Unlike New Zealand where we hang out behind the counter they just go wandering.
It seems as though everyone has a shop here. They were like, whats the lounge for? We'll just rip out the front of our house, sell a lot of one object, and call ourselves a shop. They then go on about life and just hope they notice people when they go wandering into their house.
Its friday here at the moment. Everyones get on the booze it seems. Doesn't look to be a safe night.

Catch ya'll around. Leew pop gun maih! (Phenetically correct but dont quote me ok.)