Day 40: See Ya Bangkok!

Well, it's been fun...but it's time to move on up North I guess. Oh Bangkok, I'll miss you...but definitely not your smog and pollution. Allison and I went by the school today to pick up our student teaching packets, so that was the final goodbye to BCC. After we left we went to a cute little Mexican restaraunt called Coyote's with Alyse, Heidi, and two of the teachers from school. Then, Allison and I went over to a football pitch (aka: soccer field) to watch Andy (aka: sexy British PE teacher), Christian, Jaysen, and several of the other teachers from school play football. We sat there for 2 hours, but it was so much fun watching them play! Now, I'm not really a soccer fan...but seeing people play who actually know what they're doing is pretty entertaining I'll admit. Then we went out to eat and hang out with everyone for the last time. (sad face) It sucks that we never really hung out with everyone from work before our last week in Bangkok, but I guess I should be thankful that we did this week anyway. They are all such dorks, but gotta love 'em. At least if I come back in May there will be people to hang out with and stuff. I'll just post silly pictures we took of the guys at dinner...they are such characters.

Ok, so since I really have nothing else to talk about because that's just about it for today...I'll talk about some of my favorite memories in Bangkok. I'll just say top 5...

5. Australian Day with the Aussies - Oh my word that whole meal was amazing! Those ribs and that potato salad were unreal. My mouth is watering just thinking about it! Mmm....I wonder whatever happened to those guys? We never hung out with them after that.

4. Dream Boys Mistake - I mean, sure this is not such a fond memory, but I'm glad I got to experience what I did. It for sure opened my eyes up to the world around me, and though I'm jaded now, I'm glad I get to return home and tell people that sex trafficking is real and happening.

3. Paragon Food Court - Oh my favorite meal..."cowmanguy" was my JAM! I loved going there pretty much everyday. The workers started to recognize us about a month into our trip, and they would just smile and know exactly what we wanted. What can I say...we were regulars!

2. Koh Sumet - Playing pool, hanging out on the beach, and just talking to the British boys, Adam and Alex, was a blast! It's so refreshing to have genuine conversations with people about legit stuff and not just same old small talk...

1. Meeting so many different people from tons of countries!!!!! If my list is updated correctly, we met people from about 20 countries! How crazy is that?! --Thailand, Indonesia, Netherlands, Australia, Korea, England, Ireland, Russia, Holland, South Africa, Kenya, Canada, Chinese, Iraq, France, Chile, Switzerland, Germany, Singapore, Denmark--

So, here's to Bangkok...suawdee caa. Love the food and the rice. Here's to all those good decisions we're making, thanking God we still aren't taken. :)

And tomorrow...the day I've been waiting on is finally here! We're flying up to Chiang Rai to stay with the Wheelers, and words can't even describe how pumped I am! It's a small world after all.

I'm out.
Cwalk.