A Weekend in Thailand

 ** This  post is belated,  I wrote it on Sunday, but forgot to post it :P **

Blog Readers:  Chantel, What did you do this weekend in Thailand?

Chantel:

Well this weekend started out like any other by leaving school with my mom and brother. I went home showered and played on my computer until it was time for bed.  This would be considered exciting by Thai teenager’s standards. It stormed really hard Friday night so I didn’t go to sleep till GASP 10 pm.... how rebellious of me.

 On Saturday, the exchange student from Italy asked me if I wanted to hang out. We spent about half an hour trying to figure out something to do. Unfortunately there is nothing to do, except shop and go to the movies. Considering all the movies are in Thai we opted for more shopping. We walked around SermThai for a little bit but it was too crowded and crazy so I suggested we go to a market nearby. We shopped for a few hours.  I didn’t buy much. I am basically shopped out, attention and money wise. We headed back to SermThai and decided to go to Swenson’s for ice cream.

We bought these huge sundaes. I got like a strawberry banana one and Sara got a chocolate one. After we finished we were paying when I ran into my host cousin, May. She offered to give us a ride home. This was awesome because although I am pro at taking the bus into town, I hadn’t taken it home by myself yet and that was a little nerve wracking. So we went with her and her friends. She called my mom and my mom invited Sara to spend the night and then accompanying me to my fruit carving class the next day. After a few phone calls, it was set we would go to her house so she could pick up some clothes then we would head home.

It was funny because my cousin is in university and we were in her friend’s car and they kept making stops to pick up and drop off people because everyone is home from university and needed rides. So Sara kept asking, “Oh is this where you live?”  I was like, “Nope, I have no idea where we are.” It was funny because we could relate on how we never knew what was going on.

When we got home, I showed her my room and she agreed that it is beautiful. Sara has to share a room with her host sister and is having troubles adjusting to it. This made me so thankful for my room. I then brought her outside to play with the mini sticks I brought. My family loved this; they thought it was so cool to see the two exchange students bonding over a sport from my home. Unfortunately, it kinda sucked because I only had a bouncy ball and   ornamental mini sticks. They had no curve and were just terrible. The ball was bouncing all over the place and the dogs were going crazy. Then we ate shower and talked for a while. We each had a shower and went upstairs to watch a movie on my laptop. We fell asleep at around 11pm.

 We woke up this morning around 9am. Sara was excited to have cereal for breakfast because her host family eats rice every day for every meal. After breakfast we showered again, (Don’t worry this is normal in Thailand) and then got dressed for the day. I threw on this grey oversized T-shirt dress, which proved to be a mistake later. Next we sat and went through my Thailand Guide book circling things we wanted to do or see. We both agreed we wanted to go to the sea and the full moon party.

  My brother called us down and we were off to our fruit carving lesson, or we thought. We went to my brother’s friend, James’ house and then the two of them took off, telling us to wait in the truck. So Sara and I are sitting there hungry, hot and so confused.  There was a seven eleven across the road so we were like should we go? I don’t know they told us to wait in the truck? We ended up just sitting in the truck until they returned. Turns out they were getting another fruit carving knife for Sara, why they didn’t bring us, I will never know.

 So this week at fruit carving I learned how to carve a watermelon into a flower. It was fun but kinda labour intensive and all I wanted to do was eat the watermelon. After we finished, Sara and I went over to the shopping centre and walked around for a bit.

I think I should mention this shopping centre is my best friend and my enemy. It has become my guilty pleasure. The clothes are sold wholesale so everything is super cheap. Which would be great if you just went there once, thing is my family goes to that area everyday so I am constantly tempted. I have already bought four dresses there. But I am stopping, I swear.

 After we finished walking around, I had bought another dress and another hair bow, but hey, you can’t have too many dresses or hair bows. We went and found Go and James and headed back to Sara’s house. We dropped her off then  Go and James were hungry,( how typical, I hang out with these two quite a bit and they are always going out for food not just like a snack but a full meal), so we went out for rice and chicken. I kindly refused, it was three in the afternoon, just after lunch and almost dinner, I don’t know how anyone could be hungry.

So as we were leaving it started to rain, just lightly, I didn’t think anything of it. My brother went and ordered more food from a street vendor and I went and sat on a bench with James while the vendor made it. Then it started pouring and the wind picked up so we stood up to stand against the wall. That’s when I regretted the whole oversized t-shirt dress. The wind caught my dress and blew up around my head. I grabbed and pulled it down as fast as I could, but it was too late, James and my brother were already laughing at me. Oh Thailand, what you put me through. So I firmly held my dress down and waited out the storm.  We headed back, dropping James off at home, and then returning to our house. Once again it proved to be a fairly decent Sunday.

 Tomorrow we have school and I am already dreading it. The only good thing about school tomorrow is that we have exams starting on Wednesday then we are out of school for like two weeks or a month or something.  I have been told different amounts by different people.  I am so excited. Did I mention how much I hate school? Well I do, and not having to go to school makes me happier than anything.

 So count down the days until school ends, with me and we can all celebrate.

xoxo Chantel <3