Getting into the system! :-)

From Bangkok to Hua Hin there is a 3 hours drive. Which isn’t long… unless you have to pee! We arrived at Sala Hua Hin, which is actually a hotel, but the school bought some rooms here for students. It’s a lovely place, with a swimming pool, fitness room, near the beach and each room had it’s own balcony, fridge, TV etc. Anita, Lilou and I all live on the same floor, which is epic.

When we first got here, I was given a room with neon green walls….Imagine what it’s like being inside a kiwi multiplied by 100x saturation and you’ll sort of know what I felt like being in there. The view was a creepy, old house with lots of hens and cocks outside…
So Lilou and I went to the reception and I got a nice dusty pink room instead, with the view to the swimmingpool – I am SO much happier 🙂 I’m planning on taking some photos of my room/the hotel but I would rather wait till I get all my unpacked (I’m just about as back unpacking as I am with packing) and made it nice, so a picture of Lilou’s room will have to do for now 🙂

After that,  we went to the restaurant here at the hotel. We all ordered a cocktail each, but none of us finished ours, because it was 50% bad thai alcohol and I’m not sure what the rest was but it was awful. The food, however, was wonderful and really cheap. (I paid 60 baht for my favourite dish; Pad Kaprow Gai Kai Dow (chicken with basil leaves and an egg on top, spicy) which is equal to about 10 kr.)

Lilou and I were watching Criminal Minds in my room after dinner but I fell asleep while watching it… unfortunately as I was trying to turn off the light previously (we have a light control by our beds) I had managed to put the alarm on as well, which woke up us at 7 o’clock…. Total panic, because both Lilou and I were terrified it was the fire alarm for a few seconds.

All day today was spent shopping because Lilou’s parents were here and they had a car. We weren’t informed about having to bring towels/toilet paper/kitchen utilities etc. So I spent 2000 baht in a store and thought for a second while paying that I must be completely broke, but then I converted it and felt stupid. I love that everything is so cheap here!!!

When we got back here, Lilou went for dinner with her parents and Anita and I went for dinner at a local restaurant 200 meters away from our hotel.
It was really nice, and I’m happy to say that both Anita and I have done the stupid ‘police greeting’ back at the official people instead of doing a wai.

After that we went to 7/11 and bought spoons and forks (they didn’t sell normal knives?) where it was possible to buy a “St. Anna” diet drink and an “Emo” drink. Pure Epicness!

As we were walking back, we found a small massage parlour as well and had a Thai massage which was quite amazing! The lady understood just about no English whatsoever, so I caught myself numerous times almost drifting off to sleep.

We went back to the hotel and as we got into the elevator to get to our floor, a guy we had  previously exchanged a few words with signaled us to come join him and some other people from Webster for some drinking at the bar. (He didn’t understand my “2 mins we have to go put our stuff in our room” hand signal, but thought I was trying to say peace to him.) Quite funny, when we came down and the ‘mystery’ was solved.
They all seemed really nice, but apparently everyone speaks french here? I remember when I had to choose between German and French in 7th grade and my dad told me that “German is a lot more useful, French is bleeh”! Right now, I wouldn’t mind being able to speak the latter!

We are all in Lilou’s room now on our computers. Tomorrow is Orientation day, so we decided to not go to the party the others were speaking of and instead get a good nights sleep… I was just completely blown away by the time. It’s 00:16, but it feels like it’s 19-20-ish… I must still be jet-lagged.

(Currently just being true nerds)

Hope all is good whereever you are in the world. 🙂

much love

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