Aimee’s World Tour

Hello all,

I’m in Bangkok… got in at midnight Bangkok time… which is two hours behind Korea.  Right now it’s 11 am and I’m at some internet cafe thing right by the guest house I stayed in.  This red-headed girl from I’d guess England showed me which coin to put in because I had no clue about the coinage.  Still don’t really.  They have skype and a video cam so I hope some of you will be logged on!

 I can’t believe the difference in the weather out here. It’s so different from Korea!  I’ve traded in my winter coat, scarf, gloves and hat for shorts and a t-shirt, not to mention my bathing suit!  I’m a bit warm wearing my makeshift jean “capris”. And there is so much greenery. 

I’m about to get a taxi to the train station to book my overnight ticket and then I hope to get to see the Emperor Palace before I have to head out.  EVERYONE SPEAKS ENGLISH.  It’s so refreshing.  And people want to help you. 

Even the foreigners are different… they aren’t all English speaking.  I’ve heard a lot of French and some German and well… you get the idea. 

I totally lucked out at the airport.  I ended up meeting two girls from CA and some guy from Quebec (with a very French accent) and we were able to split a cab from the airport to Khosan so I only had to spent approx. 100 Baht (not sure how to spell any of this) instead of 400 by myself.  I made sure not to get ripped off by the taxi service inside that was 1100 baht.  Um… I believe the exchange rate is around 33 baht (for the dollar).  I had changed my Won over to dollars at my bank in Migeum Station before I left yesterday day.  (Migeum Station is where I live FYI.) 

I believe I had almost picked a fight with the woman inside when I was checking out today because I was pretty sure I had paid a security deposit of 1100 not 1000 and I wanted to get my 100 back.  The paper did say 1000 but I’m pretty sure I had paid the teeny bit more.  It’s just that everyone warned me about getting ripped off out here.  Ah well.

In general Koreans don’t try to rip you off but aren’t always so friendly.  It’s the opposite out here apparently.  But I wouldn’t really know since I’ve only been here a matter of hours. 

Last night after I booked my accomodation I wandered about on Khosan Road and ended up kind of losing my way so that I didn’t get to bed until 3 am which was 5 am my time. 

Ugh – it was such an effort to get up this morning but I knew I had to check out by noon and also get that train ticket or my entire schedule will get screwed up. 

This blog I’m quite sorry is CRAP but I’m in a bit of a time crunch.  It actually started out as an email but I figured just blog it. 

I’ll try to get to a computer again soon. 

~Bangkok Aimee

 PS no time to proof this!  Come back again when I’m written proper English!

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