Market Time

Well, Friday….supposed to have class, except for Professor Kerbo got food poisoning at and Italian restaurant. So no sociology class, but language. Not bad. Came back and played some music.

Day 24

Woke up and rented some bikes to bike to some local ruins. It was going to be fun til I broke my bike all to hell. I busted the pedals up in multiple ways to the point where I could only use one pedal……I was pretty impressed with myself. But got there later rather than sooner. Took a songtao with all of our bikes on top. After we got there, we were glad we took a ride because it was way farther than the book said. Luckily Dave had a bike that had another seat over the back tire and pegs for me to ride on. He reminded me of Dane when we where little. Dane being my mule;) Came back and went to the Saturday Market. That was cool. Found the amazing blind band, but forgot my camera!!! Then got some kind of a crispy crepe thing with chocolate. It was good….real good. Dave and Nick bought hammocks for 350 baht…I was tempted. Came back and went to a Rasta club…..it was ok…came back swung by Mike’s (a burger joint). Pretty good….came back and went to bed…

Day 25

Woke up and went to the Central Airport Plaza shopping mall by myself. I got there an hour early so I ended up talking to this Thai lady for about 45 minutes. Very nice and she had gone to University in Baton Rouge about thirty years ago, so she still spoke pretty good english. Finally got in and bought some new cargo shorts since I blew the crotch out of my green ones finally  Also bought a button up shirt and some basketball shorts so I could work out with Dave later. Came back and hung out til me and Dave went to the fitness park across the street from the IC. It is a track with obstacles like push ups and sit ups and bars and a military press thing….pretty cool. It’s no wonder everyone is skinny over here. Hot and fitness parks!!! We ran a mile (like a 7 minute mile) and the a half of mile through the obstacles. Then came back and went to the Sunday Market. Got some cool stuff that you guys will have to wait and see…..;) Then came back and crashed….

Day 26

Woke up and kicked Dave out of bed and we went to the fitness park again. Ran 2 miles….holy crap. Came back ate and got ready for school. Went early to study. Talked to Ashley instead;) Went to the first class in a week and a half. Awesome. Came back, dropped my laundry off and went to the “OP” aka….The Organic Vegetable Place. Then I’m back here update’n and I think we are going to the Night Bazaar to pick up some suitcases to pack all of the shit we bought at the markets….ya, there’s that much stuff. So I’ll talk to everyone in a bit….Oh and we now are 98 percent sure we are going to Bangkok….everything is pretty much over with the riots and protests, and we might actually get to see some army tanks that are still on patrol. Hopefully we get to see that!!! The place where all the protesting was going on was 2 blocks down from where we are staying! But it’s safe….Love you all and I’ll talk to you later.

P.S. I wrote just a few captions on my pics explaining just a couple of things.....no biggie

written by  Matt Eastlick on April 20, 2009 from Chiang Mai, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand Study Abroad
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