Weekend swag

So the resort was amazing! We get there and book a hostel and so I have seen the movie hostel and was really really scared because in that movie everyone essentially dies and its like not a nice place.  Jings guesthouse was anything but that! It was gorgeous, I have pics but my camera is acting shady.  It was gorgeous it looked just like a hotel, for two nights I paid 33 dollars.  So it was a win all around.  SO getting there...

Well the night before me, felicia, carla, and lucy went to bangkok/kaorsarn road.  Essentially it was the craziest night of my life, I will put up so random pics.  Essentially we were at a bar, people kept selling us things, a small child sold us flowers, we went to a european club which was rave music and then a thai club that was michael jackson music and 90s music. It was the best djed party I had been to in a while.  When we went to a bar the first night we got here, a thai band did their own rendition of michael jacksons biwie jean so I know they love them some MJ, which is quite perfect in my mind.

So essentially I went to bed at 530 and we were supposed to catch a bus at 6.  Needless to say we woke up at 9 to find that our whole program had left us essentially which was odd because Lucy had planned the trip and we had specificially said wake us up we want to go with you. But cool so we get to the train station as planned for 6 dollars we caught a bus for 2 hours to Hua Hin which is a beach resort.  Essentially the bus ride was long but what put the nail in teh coffin was when we were like 20 mins away we pull into this gas station, we wait there for 45 minutes in line for gas.  They made this announcement in thai so we had no idea, when we found out we got out and got a taxi.  Essentially the taxi driver was yelling to all the motorcyclists and random people on the street to ask directions because he didnt know where to go...twas a fail.  Essentially we finally walked there and we got there at 530 only to find that the people in the program had gotten a program bus to drop them in front of the guesthouse.  We were pissed so we got thai massages.

thai massages are no joke.  these women are so limber, one second her legs were on my calfs the next they were on my shoulderblades, it was crazy.  at some points i thought my legs were going to break, so i don't know how more inflexible people handled the situation.  at one point i kicked her in the face, she laughed at me it was unreal.  anyways it calmed me down then i had this bomb french onion soup, attended to my bug bites and was on my way.

the next day we woke up for the sunrise.  it was gorgeous it was a religious holiday as well when the monks sit in the temple and lock themselves in there so we saw the monks traveling there.  We then went elephant riding.  i love elephants so it was joyous.  iw as saddened though becaus ethe elehant riders hit htem on the head with a metal hammer looking thing hwen they were bad so i was said.  i heard one get whipped and i have never heard a sound like that.  sigh but the elephants were beautiful and majestic.  me and lucy's elephant loved posing for pics, when we were getting tired of picture taking it was just getting started with its photoshoot.  we got a free soda and pinneaple afterwards then headed to the beach!  It was gorgeous, a lot of little crabbies though.  it was interesting because all the westerners and europeans were in the sun while the thai people were under a canopy of darkness.  this was the first time we had actually seen non thai people.

then the nezt day we layed on the beach again and then we left and caught the program van back.  it was a much easier trip. me and lucy left our presentation on bioethical issues of extreme premaurity to teh last minute so i stayed up late and did it.  We just finished our presentation it was pretty good.  Other people did performance enhancing drugs for students, trans issues, end of life issues, nursing strikes, and jewish perspectives of cosmetic surgery.  It was a good day.

Now we are going to bangkok to the iron fairies which is a bar and eating because im starving.  i will post my pics and all my shoutouts once I return in a few hours! love yalls miss yalls.