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The sniffles

Monday, August 11th, 2008

The first big illness of the trip has befallen your two world travelers and we seem to have been struck down with a particularly spiteful form of the sniffles.

We’re both on anti-biotics and apparently it has been going round, so we at least have some info on what to expect, should clear up within a week if we keep taking the drugs. This does sadly mean that we can’t drink at all, but considering that it is now 8 minutes to 6 (p.m.) and this is the very first time I’ve been able to drag myself from the room, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

This is the second full day spent not getting out of bed, even now as I type I can feel a bit of a sweat coming on. Lauren is just as ill as me, but we think she is a day ahead so, thankfully, she’s starting to feel better.

Hopefully, this will clear up soon as our time on Koh Tao is coming to an end, we are in our penultimate week and soon need to begin taking our anti-malarial drugs once more in preparation for Vietnam and Cambodia.  Speaking of which, I am highly looking forward to being on the move once more. Staying in one place has been amazing, and I have aquired a feel for island life that would have eluded me should we have only been here for a week, but remaining stationary is making me feel, if only by a tiny amount, homesick. I cant quite figure out why this is, Lauren seems unaffected by it and is more than content to live on an island paradise (who, after all, wouldn’t be?) There is something inescapably homesick-inducing about being ill away from home, especially without a constant and ever changing stimulus of new places and things to see and do.

Either that or I’m a friggin’ moaner.

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Muay Thai Training

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Went to my first Mauy Thai training session yesterday. In retrospect, there were one or two factors working against me:

1/ it was swelteringly hot, by the time I had walked the 5 minute walk to the open air, fan free, training ground I had already downed half a liter of water.

2/I haven’t done any physical ex cerise in over 2 months, not including that farcical situation where I free climbed a rock taller than my house on a whim.

3/I had the beginnings of a chest infection occurring, for which I’m now on a course of anti-biotics.

These three factors were sadly high enough barriers to prevent me from becoming a super farang Muay Thai master, in fact, thanks to the chest infection, I couldn’t even finish the training session and instead had to shamefully run to the toilet midway through a right jab to be sick. Not cool.

Lauren is also not too well, she is in bed at the moment and I think that maybe I should be too, apparently it’s been going around and only lasts a few days once you get anti-biotics. So hopefully it won’t be too bad.

I want to go training again, but the sport seems to be so horribly violent. I know it’s boxing with kicks, but even while I sat at the side of the training camp, taking big, heaving breaths after having just revisited my lunch, I could only see a brutal type of bludgeoning occuring, even amongst the pro’s who train alongside the rookies. I’m sure that this is my lazy untrained eye, but even so, when you watch a pro at their respective sport you hope to attain a certain finesse in their actions, rather than just a solid thumping noise, or possibly I’m missing the point?

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