Espanol en Thailand? and other randomness…
Friday, December 28th, 2007Yes, I’m supposed to be learning Spanish right now. John vanquished me from the room because he needs to concentrate. So what am I doing? Writing a blog entry…
Anyway, we’re in Chiang Mai. We bopped back from Cambodia on John’s birthday where we hit a good barbeque place in Bangkok run by an American. Pretty darn good. And the Thai woman in this band that was playing was SOOOO good! I mean, you would have no idea she was not American – she was singing American songs – no accent…and the owner of the place treated John to this awesome chocolate brownie and ice cream with a candle.
Chiang Mai is 10 hours by bus north of Bangkok. We took this thing called a VIP bus. It totally rocked. There was like 32 seats on a double-decker bus and since it was at night it was cool because the seats totally reclined and they gave us these little box meal deals and water. Although I will never understand about these overnight buses. Why must we stop at midnight for a snack? The snack was included in the price of the ticket (which was like 25 USD – kind of expensive but we figured if we’re going to be on a bus, at least it should be a good bus) but looked kind of revolting so we passed. Anyway, except for the little kid crying for a few minutes because his mom woke him up for the midnight snack (why, we have no idea) it was very pleasant – it even played half of Terminator 3 although it was dubbed in Thai. I guess it would be kind of good if you were Thai and wanted to hear the movie in Thai but Arnold dubbed just is wrong.
What have we been doing since then? Well, not a whole heck of a lot. First off, we decided we wanted to work out. And since the national sport of Thailand and Hong Kong commonly referred to as shopping does not count as a sport, we decided to look for a gym. After a couple of days of bopping around we found a cheap one at 35 baht a day (a little over a dollar) on top of a mall. It’s good enough – not great (like most of the treadmills only work for walking, not running). Secondly, we’re trying to get a jumpstart on the whole learning Spanish thing since we’ll be arriving in Buenos Aires without having classes. So we bought some CD’s and are working on that and over the internet they have games and stuff. Thirdly, we’re trying to stock up a bit on some t-shirts since we’ll be taking Spanish classes daily and while wearing the same shirt seems to work okay when you’re bopping from city to city, I’m sure our teachers will be very glad that we’re not wearing the same 2 scuzzy t-shirts every day. So instead we’ll be wearing like 5 scuzzy t-shirts.
Doesn’t our life sound exciting? Oh, and we leave for Argentina on January 22nd if I hadn’t mentioned that earlier. We’re renting an apartment in a place called San Telmo.
Oh, and Christmas. It was an exciting event. We bopped around all day looking for a place to have Christmas dinner. There were tons of places that were having it but it just didn’t excite us that much so we went to…The Sizzler. Which are not quite as run-down here as in the states. It was pretty darn tasty and didn’t break our budget…plus, it wouldn’t really have mattered that much because, well, the atmosphere is just not the same in a Buddhist country. Maybe next year we’ll be back in the states for a cooler one.
JohnCin