SARAH'S HEREEEEEEEEEE! it's awesome and simultaneously bizarre. here we are, hanging out in thailand, just like it's nbd. the first night she got here we went to the mall to get her a camera, then came back and watched tv. having people from home here has been great, not just cuz i get to show off thailand, but (more importantly and selfishly) i get a little taste of home that i've been craving so much.
we started in bangkok, but we were only there one night cuz of those damn protests. we hightailed out of there to koh samet, which is easily one of my favorite islands. tons of white sandy beach, warm water with just enough waves to give you that feeling of still being in the ocean when you're lying in bed at night, good food, fire dancers...*sigh*
also, it's HOT AS *$&% here. when all of the teachers/thai people i know were like, "get out of thailand in april," i was like "yeah, right, you guys. it's been pretty hot this whole time and i've been handling it. i bet it's not so bad." up in chiang mai, it wasn't bad at all--hell, i even got cold (granted, i was soaking wet, but still). now that we're down south, HOLY CRAP it's hot. we just spend the days sweating. sarah and i walked around victory monument in bangkok shopping with our backpacks on and just sweat on every vendor. in koh samet, every minute spent away from the beach breeze was a sweaty moment. this hot season in thailand is real serious, apparently.
we're in koh chang now until the 26th. five glorious nights on this huge island. tomorrow we're headed on a hike to a waterfall, and we've got plans to ride elephants. life's really hard.
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