Saturday, May 20, 2006
The Moffets, Monks and Motorcycles
Weekends are weird in Wiang Sa
Yesterday we showed up at school thinking we were teaching english club, but found out that it has been cancelled and moved to Tuesdays (good for us b/c now we don't have anything to do on Fridays - LONG WEEKENDS!) One teacher tells us (that's how it works here, people tell us/don't ask us) we're going to Nan with her. Well we get in her 4x4 with another teacher, and that teachers niece who is adorable. And drive to Nan, go to the national museam with its famous black elephant tusk from 200 years ago. Then we do the Wat circut. I will never get tired of Watting (my new verb for going to all the wats) they are so beautiful with the red and the gold and the intricate INTRICATE detail. I've got some stunning pics i'll put up soon. We then drop the kid off at the city playground and go to the market where the teacher Noosh keeps asking us "you like?" and of course we have no idea what the heck these flourescent-spikey fruits and veggies are, but to be polite we keep saying yes. And she keeps buying us them. We have eaten everything from things that resemble lychee nuts to Durien!!!!!!!!!! ewwwwwww. and these waffle things that ....
oh man a teacher just randomly came in and gave Miranda and I these crepe things wrapped in power-ranger tissue paper and said "EAT YOU" just an example of the randomness
....anyways the waffels had corn in them. Weird. Then we go to the street markets for dinner that consisted of hot dogs deep-fried on a stick and sliced to look like something from a Dr. Seuss book. And some other meat on sticks. And some of those mini cocktail weenies wrapped in noodles and then deep fried. There goes my plan to loose weight in Thailand. After washing those down with a couple Fantas, we get ice cream. WITH CROUTONS, PINK NOODLES AND BUTTER on it. so so so weird. We came home to our poarch which turned out to be the late night local hangout for every creepy-crawly insect, amphibian, and lizard in the rice patty. We counted 6 geckos smaller than our palm and 10 bigger than. The biggest was one about the size of my whole arm. A few coackroaches, and bugs I can only describe as beetles with spider legs.
Then today we're just hanging around waiting for our laundry to be done and Uncle Jai (our neighbor/homestay host who makes us dinner and does our laundry) comes over with coconuts/mangos from our garden. The coconuts he had just sliced the tops off and put a straw in so we could drink the milk! Very cool afternoon snack. Then "honk honk" Noosh is back to pick us up on her motorcycle and take us to school to pick up our bikes we left there before our Watting adventure. 3 people on one motorcycle is interesting even if you aren't following Thai driving rules (none at all) Now we're here at the school using the internet with the Thai radio station on in the background that just played one of the bigger hits in Thailand right now by the band "Same Same" who are just the two Moffat twins from that good ol' victoria pop band The Moffats! Haha
Well like I said, just another weekend in Wiang Sa
Yesterday we showed up at school thinking we were teaching english club, but found out that it has been cancelled and moved to Tuesdays (good for us b/c now we don't have anything to do on Fridays - LONG WEEKENDS!) One teacher tells us (that's how it works here, people tell us/don't ask us) we're going to Nan with her. Well we get in her 4x4 with another teacher, and that teachers niece who is adorable. And drive to Nan, go to the national museam with its famous black elephant tusk from 200 years ago. Then we do the Wat circut. I will never get tired of Watting (my new verb for going to all the wats) they are so beautiful with the red and the gold and the intricate INTRICATE detail. I've got some stunning pics i'll put up soon. We then drop the kid off at the city playground and go to the market where the teacher Noosh keeps asking us "you like?" and of course we have no idea what the heck these flourescent-spikey fruits and veggies are, but to be polite we keep saying yes. And she keeps buying us them. We have eaten everything from things that resemble lychee nuts to Durien!!!!!!!!!! ewwwwwww. and these waffle things that ....
oh man a teacher just randomly came in and gave Miranda and I these crepe things wrapped in power-ranger tissue paper and said "EAT YOU" just an example of the randomness
....anyways the waffels had corn in them. Weird. Then we go to the street markets for dinner that consisted of hot dogs deep-fried on a stick and sliced to look like something from a Dr. Seuss book. And some other meat on sticks. And some of those mini cocktail weenies wrapped in noodles and then deep fried. There goes my plan to loose weight in Thailand. After washing those down with a couple Fantas, we get ice cream. WITH CROUTONS, PINK NOODLES AND BUTTER on it. so so so weird. We came home to our poarch which turned out to be the late night local hangout for every creepy-crawly insect, amphibian, and lizard in the rice patty. We counted 6 geckos smaller than our palm and 10 bigger than. The biggest was one about the size of my whole arm. A few coackroaches, and bugs I can only describe as beetles with spider legs.
Then today we're just hanging around waiting for our laundry to be done and Uncle Jai (our neighbor/homestay host who makes us dinner and does our laundry) comes over with coconuts/mangos from our garden. The coconuts he had just sliced the tops off and put a straw in so we could drink the milk! Very cool afternoon snack. Then "honk honk" Noosh is back to pick us up on her motorcycle and take us to school to pick up our bikes we left there before our Watting adventure. 3 people on one motorcycle is interesting even if you aren't following Thai driving rules (none at all) Now we're here at the school using the internet with the Thai radio station on in the background that just played one of the bigger hits in Thailand right now by the band "Same Same" who are just the two Moffat twins from that good ol' victoria pop band The Moffats! Haha
Well like I said, just another weekend in Wiang Sa
# posted by Laura Davies : 5:57 PM
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I cant believe the Moffats are big in Thailand! So jealous....i went to their concert back in the day hah! Glad you are having fun...but you make me nervous talking about 3 ppl on 1 motorcycle...anyways miss you and cant wait to see you in decemeber!
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