Blogs from Trang, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 2

I think this is the 4th or 5th time we have landed in Bangkok. You feel more at home after so many alien airports and landscapes. We changed spare Singapore and Malaysian currency into Baht checked the exchange rate at around 50 to the £ about 30% less than 4 years ago and looked for the cheapest ticket into town. The air conditioned airport bus is only 150 Baht so we clambered aboard and after 45 minutes were deposited a short walk from the top of Koahsan road (police station end!). Despite my optimism we found most hotels either full or too expensive and I was left with the bags while the girls went off in search of a room. Duly found at just 430 for a triple room with fan, it overlooked the popular busy ... read more

As some of you know, Berm and I have embarked on another travel adventure. This time we are in Thailand for 5 weeks. I've travelled to Thailand before, about 5 years ago, but am excited to be here with Berm, and with our friends Adam and Kym from Vancouver, and Daniel (aka Monk) from Seattle. We escaped the snow and slush in Vancouver on the 27th, and made it to Bangkok about a day and a half later, after approximately 17 hours of flying. The sights from the window of the taxi that took us into the city of Bangkok at 1:30am that morning certainly reminded us that we were in a different world - a street corner market still packed with late-night dinners, and an elephant being led along a busy main road were only ... read more

Sorry I haven't written a blog in about 2 weeks (even with mommy nagging me about it almost every day) but it has been a crazy few weeks and I haven't really had time to write or really felt like writing for that matter. But here it goes... Monday 11/10: Work was good, it was just Sam and I which was really weird since I've been used to having either Ashley or Nicole with me the whole time, but Sam is really good with the kids too. I don't believe anything really special happened, at least nothing that stuck in my mind(obviously). After work we had a free day. Went to bed pretty early. Tuesday 11/11: Again work wasn't anything special and neither was after work. Wednesday 11/12: After work today Khem and Jack ordered pizza ... read more

So as I start to write this entry it is Tuesday night here in Thailand and Tuesday morning for the rest of you guys and hopefully you guys are all heading to the polls or thinking of doing so later today. I can't wait to see who the next president will be. It is going to be very weird to come home to a country under a new presidency and in great economic trouble. So on to more Thailand. Monday 11/3: After not feeling so good on Sunday my cold got even worse and I woke up on Monday with a very bad sore throat, so I did not go to work. But all the other volunteers (excluding myself, ashley and nicole) have all been working at English camps for the past month, and this week ... read more

By the way that last entry was regarding the weekend of October 23rd and not the weekend of October 31st. Monday 10/27: So this weekend we got some new volunteers, 7 to be exact. There are 3 volunteers under the age of 30 and the rest are 50 and up. Its really weird having other people here besides us. They are all very nice and seem to be very excited about being in Thailand. Work today was the same as usual. WinWin who last week had actually seemed to be getting used to being at Day Care and had stopped crying all day long, decided that nope, he didn't like day care and continued all day to cry. It was very annoying but really sad at the same time. The part that stinks is that he ... read more