House blessing K's mom got up at 5 am. I decided to ignore it and go back to sleep until someone would ask me to get my ass out of bed - which was unfortunately only one hour later ;) I got up and had a shower. Compared to what I had experienced during the past three weeks, this bathroom and shower were pure luxury. I enjoyed every second I spent underneath this warm water shower. I wanted to help with the final preparations but no one had anything for me to do and I was told to sit on the [View Full Entry]

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26.03.2008 Khao Yai National Park I hadn't planned to travel with Fabian. But since we had a really good time at our first meeting I had called him on Monday to find out if he was interested in joining me for the next trip. He was up for it and promised to call back as soon as he knew when he'd be off work. He returned my call last night and told me that he'd be off the following two days. Because I didn't expect him to be off that soon I hadn't thought about what to do. I grabbed my [View Full Entry]

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House blessing Still no idea when Karl was going to get here. At this point I didn't care because it was weekend. K was off work and invited me to join him and his family on a trip to his sister’s house blessing ceremony in Chon Buri. Yesterday I had to check out at noon and since I was only going to meet K in the evening, I spent the afternoon on the bench in front of my back packer and tried to read. I have to mention that it was really really hot and therefore extremely hard to concentrate. At [View Full Entry]

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Meeting Fabian Today I was excited to spend the day with someone new. I packed my day bag and had a bit of a shock for a moment when I couldn't find my camera. I thought that it was stolen or that I must have lost it. But then I remembered, that I had to hand it in at the cinema last night. I'm not used to that and had totally forgotten to pick it up after the movie. I walked down Thanon Khao San, trying to find Mc Donnald's - a spot easy to find - when all of a [View Full Entry]

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Going to the cinema The day was about as exciting as yesterday. Somehow I managed to go out to seven eleven and buy water but the rest was much the same. In the afternoon I remembered that the movie "Step Up 2" which I wanted to see should be shown now. I called K to find out if he wanted to join but he had Japanese class. I really wanted to see the movie and after nearly two days mainly spent in my room I realized that I had to overcome my fear of getting lost and get out. Therefore I [View Full Entry]

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Thailand on my own When I woke up I had a really strange feeling. K wouldn't come to pick me up, we wouldn't be spending the day together. It's not, that I can't be on my own or have a look around "town" by myself, but this is Bangkok, K told me that there is no such thing as a map, and I have a terrible sense of orientation. Honestly, I was scared that if I left my backpacker I'd most probably never find back again and be lost in this huge city forever. I felt really planless as what to [View Full Entry]

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Flight of the Gibbon I love Chiang Mai and it's a great place to be. The only thing I can't deal with are the mosquitos. I must have been bitten a thousand times by now and K just laughed and said "look, I got ONE too". So far I've had rather bad nights being itchy on every inch of my skin. I actually had a mosquito repellent with me (the best on the market, according to my uncle Felix) but it didn't seem to do the trick. Yesterday I've finally come up with the idea of buying a different one - [View Full Entry]

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Day Off After two weeks of travelling I finally got my very first day off. I know what you think, I've heard it many times before "what do you need a day off for, you've got a really long vacation". At this point I'd like to stress again that travelling is not equal a vacation. Poor me doesn't even have weekends. Ok ok, I don't need you to feel sorry for me at this point ;) But seriously, travelling is tiring because there are so many things to see and do and I think it's even more tiring for me than [View Full Entry]

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Wedding It has been a short night. When we arrived in Lampang I was given a sheet and asked to spread it on the wooden floor of the house and sleep. Lying there I tried to remember when I had last slept on the floor and I had come to the conclusion that this is most likely a first. It took me ages to fall asleep. Not because of the lack of comfort I'm used to but because of K and his friends laughing outside and all the impressions I've gained since travelling seemed to occupy my mind endlessly. Furthermore it [View Full Entry]

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Thai dinner Have I already mentioned that traveling is really tiring? Well it is! Therefore it was time for sleeping most of the morning and then spend the afternoon at a nice cafe talking and reading. In the evening we were picked up by Tai. Together we went to yet another friend from work called Joe. His wife's just had a baby about a month ago and we were invited to go and have a look at it. It's Joe's second child and a really adorable little baby boy. I thought that we'd just go by, look at the baby, have [View Full Entry]

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