These past two days have been literally insane. We were dropped at Koh Samet island with around 8 new thai students and 3 more american students. needless to say we got to know everyone so quick, it felt like the real world for two nights. we left at 10:20 am on friday and got to the beach around 3. i met my roomate ying. she is 19 like cara but she studied in the us for 6 years in high school and so she speaks perfect english. she loves to party and loves chipotle so we are a match made in heaven. she got into uva but her mom made her come back to thailand for college so she is enrolled in mahidol. so in order to get to the beach we had to take a speedboat. of course me carla and rachel decide to be elevated on the back of the boat. we got soaked, it was a rollercoaster to say the least. my butt wasnt touching the seat for half the ride because i was in the air, the railings were slippery so i thought i might slip out. anyways in america we would have all had safety jackets and the boat would not have been open, so this is why i say america is no fun.
we laid on the beach and ate a literal seafood feast paid for by the program. our program director named pi da is so sweet, she was overheard once saying "i just want you guys to have fun and not be hungry in my country!" she is such a doll. then...we decided to go out. so i took notes on the night on my ipod when we got bak and ill type up what i have here and then go from there:
-12.11 was her time (i was back in bed after the crazy night and watched a little bit of thai track, that was for the 100m dash for women)
- dogs fighting
-dancing with old ladies drinking buckets
-not knowing what was going on
-rachels leg and putting her on a makeshit ambulance
-steal matzah
-huge bug on me...i screamed and literally almost cried. it was a huge green bug crawling on me, i was so paranoid after that
-limbo/ hot man
-looking for young girl with holland boy thought about joran but emerged out the water
-small dog suckling a teat
-eating burgers
-trying to leave btu not knowing where anyone was
-does thailand have an olympic team?
-thai acting...its horrible
-fast taxi
-a lot of ketchup
-american bfast
-pumped our bus
-forty eight hours in thai
-only in thailand
-sniffing scents
-bug bites sea urchin ssting
-crazy boatrides
so we go out ... there is a fire show with a very attrative thai man, so all the girls are trying ot talk to him and hes very cocky. anyways a girl gets really drunk and starts playing with the fire balls, im esssentially crying at this point because it is so dangerous. she is performing with these really entertaining thai children and somehow comes out unscathed. moments later larry tried but he isn't as drunk, feels the heat on his arms, and drops the stick immediately in the sand. this whole situation is just dangerous. there are stray dogs and cats everywhere and there is this one small pup who is very cute but very obviously infected with ticks or something. it sucks on the moms teets. the same girl who played with the fire is now trying to do a backbend. her knee gave out int he middle and shes writhing on teh floor in pain but we just thought bc she was drunk she was being drmatic. turns out she actually cant get up and we have to take her to the pool and off the beach. with my man arms i lift her up single handedly because everyone else was sitting and watching... earlier that day a girl got scratched up at the beach. anyways theres a 15 year old girl on the trip and shes obviously a baby but she likes to party so we were dancing with her, next thing i know she has gone off with some holland boy. randomly this man from morehouse pops up and is like its cool let them go. apparently he did the program two years ago. he has also brought over the coordinators of our program who are partying with us. anyways im sitting down at this point to try and comprehend what is happening.
then like a scene in the movie the crowd opens up and this morehouse man is doing pass de burre's and chasse's in front of me. like a strange hip hop version but hes really into it and trying to make me move. at this point i decide that my life is interesting enough to write a book about so i am determined to remember everything from the night. and then also like a scene in a movie he fades out and i feel sniffing on my leg, oh cute a dog...wait ew hes a stray, o god there is another dog....aaaaaand now they are fighting...on the dance floor. people are partying and there is also a dog fight on the dance floor. they eventually stop and literally no one acts like it was strange.
at this point im like the 15 year old needs to be found. like we dont kno this guy shes like 5 years old we have to search so me and felicia take off down the beach calling her name. she literally emerges from the sea with him in 5 seconds and so that poblem is solved. i eventually go and help rachel get into an ambulance because of her knee while trying to feed her matzah which she took and tried to feed sarah, the cab driver, and a cat. so i was like well if the matzah isnt appreciated ill take it and eat it. ok we dance some mre and hten we go to this random burger place. which was a feat because we feasted a few mere hours before. on two separate occassion lucy and dylon turn to me and say "this is the best f'ing burger ive ever had" and i agreed as i poured a whole bottle of ketchup out on it. i decide to go to bed but have to find my roomate who is eating noodles on the beach and take carla back bc she was crying because she wanted to sleep.
we woke up for an amazing american breakfast. we banana boated (we all ride a banana and fall off the boat and are in the middle of hte ocean) we have life jackets on but felicia freaks out, amy falls off by herself and felicia told her to grab her leg...it was funny at the time. we went out again, played truth or dare and had an equally as weird night. someone kissed a 41 year old, there was more fire, a groomed puppy was found, shots were taken with an extreme lady boy bartender, it was just a lot.
the next day more american breakfast, a thai student got stung by an urchin and then we had a debacle while trying to leave the island on the boat. everyone is on but rachel who is hurt so the guy decides to pick her up and bring her to the boat. a wave crashes into him and he falls...with rachel. she is soaking wet and has a bruised arms bc she fell on rocks. larry forgot to turn in the key so he is running bak to get it, all the while the rip tide is pulling the boat into the rocks and pulling another boat into us. a man is standing between the two boats trying to control them and essentially gets smooshed. the driver of the boat is pissed at us because we are so slow (we know this bc the thai students translated). larry sees the boat pull off and almost dives in the water but we are able to make it back. the wind is crazy at this point and we take off, my stomach has never dropped so fast because the waves were so big. it was great for me but terrible for those that were seasick. anyways we left the island and went straight to the hospital and dropped all the injured people off. i then went to the mall where my friend bought some msg. thats right just plain msg ... i guess to sprinkle on ur food?
there are parts of this story that if i were in ur shoes reading it...i just wouldn't believe but thats why i took loads of pictures and they are coming up next!
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