Thai hookers, Phuket and Pool Parties.

Due to numerous complaints about the lack of updates on my blog, I have decided to pick up on it again. I had otherwise previously decided to lay the writing aside for a bit, in order to focus on school, but I guess it all comes down to prioritizing. Perhaps fewer body tequilas will help in this case. As I haven’t updated in a while, this will be a very long update, but I have decided to split it into smaller sections in chronological order as to not bore you too much. 🙂

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I am not sure where to start. For the past many months, so much has happened and yet ?so little? to me, because it has become an everyday experience having to stop in the middle of the road while driving, because some cows decide to randomly cross the streets, or seeing 5-6 years old at 2 o?clock in the middle of the night, running around desperately trying to sell roses (and punching the boys in a certain area if they don?t). Finding snakes on campus, seeing hookers everywhere ? and trying to decide whether they are in fact women or men. (Usually if you look at the size of their feet, their height + width of shoulders and their throat it?s mostly visible, but otherwise I separate the most beautiful ones into the lady boys section.) I?m not kidding. Some of them are beyond gorgeous?

I have developed an unfortunate hatred towards most pale, fat, middle-aged and older men (whom are in my theory mostly bald) down here  when they walk around with a petite Thai woman my age.
I am not sure if it?s because I have watched too many romantic movies, but I hardly believe that >true love< can be bought in the middle of a wild night. I find it to be a slightly naïve and superficial way of compensating for something else. (But, of course, I won’t deny that it happens sometimes… still though…)

During one of our weekends, we went to Bangkok which was a unfortunately a disappointment. In my opinion it?s too crowded, too stressed and too dirty. Honestly I think it?s overrated?. (Except the shopping part, which was quite lovely.)
Phuket on the other hand?. My God, Phuket is the reason I love Thailand. It?s smaller than Bangkok, simpler, more beautiful, down to earth, I know my way around and I. Just. Love. It.
Lilou and I made a trip down to Phuket during September. It was indescribable.
Hua Hin doesn?t have an airport that actually works so we took a bus down there, which takes about 9 hours (a nightmare) but thankfully we took it at night so we could sleep through most of it. We stayed at our friend?s guesthouse which is located perfectly ? right near the shopping/food mall and in walking distance to Bangla Road (the party road which is also connected to the beach.) We left on a Thursday night because our art classes were cancelled on that Friday and our plan was taking the bus Sunday night back to Hua Hin in time for our classes Monday morning.
However, it was impossible to leave. We had so much fun, partying, drinking, dancing, shopping, meeting people and so on that we decided to stay one more night?.. bad idea, because when the time came to leave on that Monday we realized that we had gotten wrong information regarding the bus schedules and had missed it by 30 minutes?.. which meant: 5 minutes of regret that we would be missing another day of school and another 23 hours of pure freedom and fun. 😉
Lilou knows a wonderful, tiny place where tequila can be bought for 30 baht -> ~5 crowns. We would start each night there (I would have approximately 2-3 shots, whereas Lilou ?the crazy tequila drinker- would have at least 4.) and then see where the night took us. At one point (I blame the tequilas again) I decided to go skinny dipping on the beach. Not the best idea, but at least I can now tick that off my list of ?things that must be done while young?.

September went by quickly. Needless to say we had lots of fun during the weekends, especially one night is memorable as we decided to drink near the pool which lead to the decision to have our own little pool party.
We also went and saw some tourists things such as the view of the whole of Hua Hin (which meant that we had to walk a lot? again needless to say this wasn?t the thing for neither Lilou nor I, but joyful and hyper-active Anita seemed to love it) and we also went to the ?floating market? which is a basically just a market built on top of a small lake. Cute, but prices were ridiculous.

Hua Hin doesn’t offer too much of a nightlife, but we have our own little local bar called Sam Sam (33 in Thai) where we play pool and if we get “really” drunk, we go to the only real club that Hua Hin has, which is filled with hookers and Thai gangsters. It’s usually always fun though, because it’s almost an unwritten rule that you only go there if you’re really drunk.

I think I’ll leave at this note. 🙂

– Anna.