Just a few updates from last time.

Last Saturday we had a work party at 6pm for our boss’s birthday, but before hand went to a huge market in town to look for fabric. Along with massages, getting dresses and suits tailor made are much less expensive here in Thailand. Alena, Aey and I went on our fabric search, and found some nice patterns and dress ideas. I picked up the dress today (just a week later, it was so fast!)– and love it, I think will go have a suit made for work next year! At least this way I can make sure that the jacket won’t have shoulder pads – I think my swimmer shoulders can do that on their own! After we finished at the tailor’s we went to get our hair done for the party (yet another thing that is very inexpensive in Thailand). A hair wash and cut is about $5 – and getting your hair done (like you would for prom) is another $6. I got my hair cut – it is a lot shorter than I expected, and in a different style then I would usually get – but it grows back, right? The work party was a blast. Great food, fun dancing to Thai and American hip hop songs, and some Thai karaoke.

Last Sunday I went on my own little adventure around town. I took a sung taow ( spelling? Probably not correct – it means two benches in Thai, and is a truck with two benches in the back and a cover over the benches – the Thai equivalent of a bus around town) to Wat Doi Suthep, which is a gorgeous temple up on a hill outside of town. I also went to Sunday Market like I usually do. While I was there I found the booth that two of the staff from the Oriental Village ( the resort I teach at) own, and got to sit and talk to them for awhile, it was really nice.

Other than that, my work week was normal. Alena, Aey and I went to a Thai Blues Bar on Monday that was so much fun. Thursday night I taught at the resort, and after the other guests went to bed, the staff and I played cards and Jenga. It was so much fun, and so hilarious. They taught me a Thai card game and I taught them how to play spoons. I have not laughed so hard in a long time. One of the guys that works there also plays guitar, and was playing a whole Elvis and Eagles songs, which was also just amazing.