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WATERWORLD.
i can tell you that. everywere i go i get wet. therse past two days i was at the island koh chang, about 5 hous away from Bnagkok. yesterday i was at the beach and it rained when i took a swim. at erawan waterfalls it was...water and here in bangkok im either wet from sweet or the bloody rain. so its waterworld allright. and i thoght i was used to it after growing up on the cost (ok, close to it) and after summers always spent by the sea. but this is on another level. in just half a minute its total downpur and after 5-10 min it has stopped. or it continues for hours. so. waterworld. this morning it just made me laugh. its so silly. and thai people insist on wearing jeans soaked up to thier knees. and they walk around completelly soaked with out caring at all. like they dont know rain clothes exist. (just like me)but it fasinates me how unbothered they are by it. why they havent done anything to try to protect. but i guess it has to do with the heat. if you wear a rein coat , the sweeting underneeth will make you wet instead of the rain. so, they dont have a place to hide. we have to have thet since when we have the cold period in sweden, ite not 33 C like here, it more the other way around...
another reflection about the wether is that thai people uncondicionally must live half of their lifes wet.
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ok, to make a comprimissed rewiew of my last days, i will start backwards. that means the start starts from today. (i guess you can notice thet im tired) today i took a minibus from the island koh chang, it took the whole day. it was lovely though. i got the best seat, had teh front seat and a good wiew. and a seat belt. if i wolud have stayed in my first spot i woludnt have that. and if there wolud be an accident, i woludnt just have died but died about 100 meters away from the car after flying thrue the front window. the driver was always up in 120 kmh and my first seat didnt have any seat in front of it. and to lie dead 100 meters away from my insurence card was just unthinkable.
;)
sleept most of the trip to bangkok.
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yesterday i had my one and only thai beach day. it was raining. at least half of the day. the two days before it had been raining from morning to night. so, i guess i should be happy. the manager of the place i stayed at drive me to a secret beach (its true not many people know about it) and i to pictures, read the most boring chapter in Obamas book, had some tea, and then went home. it was a nice day. good and relaxing.
the day before was when i arrived (and no, i dont know the weekday or date, i dont think in those terms anymore. i only keep track on time)that bloody trip took 9 hous all togheter. thai people really dont know how to use a watch. when i ordered the trip the thai woman (humm...b****) (sorry) said it wolud take 5 hours. it takes 5 hours. if youre in a miniwan with a driver that goes from 0 to 120 in no time, but not with an old tierd bus that hits 90 in its better moments. o well. all in all koh chang was winderful and did wonders to me, relaxing. good food, good service.
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o yes, and how i booked the trip!! you know how your mother always tells you not to speek to strangers when your little? back home we all have thet still in us dont we?? i think i do at least, but what happens when i go to the other side of the world?? i talk to strangers! the evening before i went to koh chang i came back from Kanchanaburi. i found my self a hotell quiclky, like the last time (im so luckey when it comes to that! or is it that im just moving around in bangkoks most back packer crowded place?? any way...) after dumping the bag at the River Guest house i went out to find a vegetarian restaurant. i didnt find it. so in a big crossing, alomst under a bridge i flash my lonely planet (like people dont know im thai but you dont have to flash it out, do you?)and monents later a thai ma, Uber-polite by the way, asks if i need help. he says he knows some english. oh, jolly good, i think to my self, an oppourtunity to speek to someone that can guide me! we start talking and after a while we dont talk a bout the resturant im lokking for any more, he asks what i will do here in thailand and if im alone and bla bla bla. so, i forget that i want to go to the restaurant and suddely find my self in a tok tok on my way to the closest tourist agency. there an aggressive litte thai (b**** hummm, sorry) talks and talks and talks and im tierd and so is she and i dont know what to do, i really want to leave bangkok but i want to make my own decisionns but it was good that they have a hole package but.... and i say yes. afterwards i feel foold, not becouse i dont really know whether what i just payed for is good or not, i could never have known that since i adnt been there before, but i dont like when people dont want to listen. i weas pissed off. so, i head to the other vegetarian reataurant i had passed lokking for the one i couldnt find. there a wonderful manager told me that the company i just paid money to are not so good... thank good the restaurant i was at now was one of the best places i have been to, and it really made me feel like home. otherwise i dont know what i had done. the woman gave me her phone number and said i colud call her 24-7 if i needed help. but i didnt! it was a good trip, a nice place, a bit to expencive and they sure know how to get their money, but im still here had had 2 good nights sleeps and a nice day at the beach. so, i went back to the reastaurant tonight after coming back and told the nice woman that it was all good. and i had the best dinner ever.
noe, this place closes, im tired and have bangkok waiting for me tomorrow.
yours,
miss bangkok
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