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16th july 3pm
it was stephs birthday yesterday!! if it hadent have been for facebook i would have totally forgotten!! i never seem to be around on her birthday, but im sure we can make up for it when she gets here!! i cant wait.
got back from the temple stay this morning. what a total waste of time that was!! i reallt wanted to enjoy it aswell, i have always thought buddism was a religion that i liked and thought of it as a lovely, peacefull religion but some of the stuff i just didnt understand at all. like the fact that they seem to be very sexist and women are deffinatly still seen as the weaker sex, and dont get treated with half the respect that the men do. we had to sleep on a marble floor, 5 of us, in a tiny box room. while the guys had benches, mats and enough space. there were lots of other things i didnt agree with, but one of the main things was the way they take so much from the poor (the monks) in the mornings they go round and get free hand outs of food off the public who are all very poor and can probably only just afford to feed themselves, and they dont grow any of there own food or prepare anything for themselfs, so it was lots of small things like that which made me have second thoughts about the buddist religion. i didnt really enjoy the stay and the accomodation and toilet facilitys were disgusting!! there are obvoiusly things which are nice about buddism but mine wasnt a good experence. being taught to meditate and going home again where the parts i enjoyed. sorry monks...........
at the weekend we went to the national park where we went to see the tiger temple, where the tigers are all brought up by monks and so are tame and you can walk around with them, it was really cool, there were tiny tiger cubs that were like 15days old and they were just the cutest!! we also went down to the erawan waterfalls which was really fun, apart from being bitten on the feet by massive fish.
we stayed in a hotel for that weekend and it was like something out of a horror film!! there was no hot water, the air con was broken, the towels were dirty, the beds were solid wood, and there were cockroaches in the shower!!!!! it was an awfull experience but you can only laugh there was nothing els we could do.... its all character building i guess!?
that night we went to a thai nightclub!!.... haha it was terrible. there was some linkin park wonnabe band playing which was hillerious so we just got drunk and nearly missed the bus back to the hotel.
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