Bman goes to Thailand: Thailand

So it's taking me awhile to post the last 2 blogs. Read on to see the travels that ended up to me living in Thailand.

So I officially live in Bangkok, in sick house with 2 roommates, one from Australia and the other Canada. We live about 20 minutes walking to University and we have the option to take a boat taxi for 10cents across the river, or for a $1 a moped taxi ride (You might die taking one of those). Either way when you get to the University of Thammasat it has a feeling like highschool, but I like it alot (even despite the fact we wear uniforms) The classes are small and the teachers expect everyone to arrive late (usually 15 min) so it's no prob to take your time. The cafeteria is my fav. part, for 25 baht (about 75 cents) you can get a huge plate of food.

My impressions of Bangkok:
Massive city, about 10 million, loud, smelly, wild dogs everywhere, food vendors on every block, polluted, littered, but yet BEAUTIFUL and I love it here. I knew before coming here that I wasn't going to fall in love with Bangkok, but it's the poeple here that really make it special. I'm learning to speak Thai at the University (I've caught on pretty fast) and it's awesome to apply it outside of school. This place is absolutely like nothing I've ever seen before and the fact that I will be here open ended (anywhere from 6 - 8 months....possibly a year) makes me love it even more.

I've already made alot of close friends who are also here on exchange and we got the chance to travel together for the first time this weekend.

I've only been here a week, and if the rest of my time is like this I can't wait.

Here are some of my first pictures of my new home...Thailand. For my first weekend Thammasat Uni sponsored a trip to Duisit Resort in Hui Hin, which is about 3 hours south of Bangkok. We had some "team building" activities. I had an awesome room with a sick view and some of the best meals of my life.

After Hui Hin the school took most of the kids back to Bangkok but a few of us brave (half crazy/stupid) guys decided to rent mopeds and drive a good 70 miles south to another town. A few things about driving mopeds in Thailand....First, you drive on the opposite side of the road completely to the left on the shoulder, which doesn't really matter because there is a constant flow of other poeple driving towards you. Secondly it's CRAZY but totally worth it. I'm only going to scooter around Thailand anytime that I travel.

The place we got to was very nice, every hostel on this trip was $6 a night, the mopeds were $6 for 24 hours. We woke up early one morning and hiked to the top of monkey mountain (not really called that)

Check out the vids of my pad, pool, monkeys, and of course my favorite, 'HOW TO FLUSH A TOILET IN THAILAND"

Enjoy

My pool...life is rough