17 novembre 2006
I’ve reached my comfort zone with this city, and that’s a problem. I won’t want to leave. I’m even thinking about how cool it would be to live here. Definitely come back. I’m not going to have time to go out of the country. The rest of these 35 days or so are going to be spent with my Buddhist Arts and PhotoJ classes, going to Chiang Mai and Phuket, and traveling around Bangkok a bit more. I still haven’t gone to Khao San Road and I haven’t seen the Floating Market. I would love to go to Vietnam and Malaysia. And maybe China, except their treatment of animals doesn’t fly with me. I’ve been feeling very idle lately. A couple weekends ago I went to Sukhothai by myself, and that was awesome. Since then Cory, Anne’s friend, came to visit and we showed him around Hua Hin. We went to Monkey Mountain, which never fails to impress. Today I woke up late and caught a public bus to town. I was supposed to wake up early and go to Phetchaburi to see the caves and temples, but starting a day trip at noon doesn’t really make sense. I’m going tomorrow instead. It’s an hour and a half trip and I hope Anne goes with me. But she’s been really sick these past couple days. There are these two stray puppies that appeared on campus. I think someone just dumped them there. A nice girl took one of them home yesterday. She doesn’t live in VIP, so she’s allowed to have pets. But I can’t. I wanted so badly to take the other one home. He’s pudgy and has a little squished face. I would have even taken him to the vet and bought him food and toys. But he yelps a lot, and isn’t potty trained, and we would have been found out for sure. But the puppy situation made me really sad. Sometimes when I’m here I go to Starbucks or other coffee shops that have been Americanized. It makes me feel comfortable. And then you walk out and get hounded by taxi drivers and stared at by men on the back of trucks and you remember you’re in Thailand. And you think, would I rather be in Starbucks in the states or in Thailand? The latter is more interesting.
I’ve reached my comfort zone with this city, and that’s a problem. I won’t want to leave. I’m even thinking about how cool it would be to live here. Definitely come back. I’m not going to have time to go out of the country. The rest of these 35 days or so are going to be spent with my Buddhist Arts and PhotoJ classes, going to Chiang Mai and Phuket, and traveling around Bangkok a bit more. I still haven’t gone to Khao San Road and I haven’t seen the Floating Market. I would love to go to Vietnam and Malaysia. And maybe China, except their treatment of animals doesn’t fly with me. I’ve been feeling very idle lately. A couple weekends ago I went to Sukhothai by myself, and that was awesome. Since then Cory, Anne’s friend, came to visit and we showed him around Hua Hin. We went to Monkey Mountain, which never fails to impress. Today I woke up late and caught a public bus to town. I was supposed to wake up early and go to Phetchaburi to see the caves and temples, but starting a day trip at noon doesn’t really make sense. I’m going tomorrow instead. It’s an hour and a half trip and I hope Anne goes with me. But she’s been really sick these past couple days. There are these two stray puppies that appeared on campus. I think someone just dumped them there. A nice girl took one of them home yesterday. She doesn’t live in VIP, so she’s allowed to have pets. But I can’t. I wanted so badly to take the other one home. He’s pudgy and has a little squished face. I would have even taken him to the vet and bought him food and toys. But he yelps a lot, and isn’t potty trained, and we would have been found out for sure. But the puppy situation made me really sad. Sometimes when I’m here I go to Starbucks or other coffee shops that have been Americanized. It makes me feel comfortable. And then you walk out and get hounded by taxi drivers and stared at by men on the back of trucks and you remember you’re in Thailand. And you think, would I rather be in Starbucks in the states or in Thailand? The latter is more interesting.
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