Saturday, June 27, 2009

Stories from Thailand (oh yes.)

Ok. So there's a couple of funny (sort of, I hope) that I'd like to share with the world from Thailand.


1. Pao, Shoua and I went on a day tour to visit a Monkey Cave and go white water rafting. We get to the Cave, and have a headache because I haven't eaten anything int he last 2 hours. Keep in mind that I while in Thailand, I ate literally 5-6 full meals a day, so, er, 2-3x as much as I did compared to when I'm here in America. So basically, I wasn't feeling as energetic as I usually am. When we arrived at the Monkey Cave, I got out because I wanted to see it, but my head was pounding at the same time. There were hundreds of little monkeys running around the little park. They would jump out at you if you had anything on you that looked like food.



There were little stands that sold bananas for a couple of Baht so that you could "feed" (in other words, have 50 monkeys jump you) them. There were a lot of incense being burned (there was a Temple next to the cave), which made my headache even worse. I saw a humongous tree, and leaned against it. All of a sudden, there are 3 monkeys that jumped from the tree branches, and began walking towards me, GROWLING. I immediately leaned away from the tree, and started backing away, putting my hands up in defense (yea, I looked stupid). They still walked towards me, showing their ferocious teeth. I was SO SCARED! Calmly, I yelled for help. Freaking monkeys--!!!



Later the same day, we went white water rafting. The young boys (prolly in the 20s) at the white water rafting flirted with us the whole time (they splashed water at us and kept on flipping us over on the boat--yes, that's a sign of affection).



Then later, one of the boys made my Shoua, Pao and I little crowns from some sort of plants. It was kind of cute. lol




So when Shoua, Pao, and I first got to Phuket, whenever we walked down the road to go do something, we always got:
1. Hollered at.
2. Proposed to.
3. asked, "Where you frommmm?" (in a really perverted way, use your imagination)
4. anything and everything.

Sooooo, on our last day, when we were much much tanner, we decided to go to a Buffet and show called Fantasea. Knowing us, we decided to match. A couple of days earlier, we had purchased shorts of different color: Tan, Blue, and Green. We decided that it'd be "cute" to wear matching polos. We then purchased matching pink polos at a mall closeby, and changed while at the mall. On the walk back to our sweet hotel, all of the guys who would normally holler at us just looked at us with confusion. Yes, we were that dark and hideous with our matching outfit. They probably thought we worked a closeby hotel. lol Look for yourself:




Yeah, we rock. lol

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Thailand!!

So, Thailand was amazing---definitely life-changing. I've learned so much, about business, development, myself, and other people. Let me fill you in on the highlights. :)



I went to the slum with Brittany, and witnessed one of the poorest place in the world. Their houses were build on stilts above a pond, and they all lived on the minimal. What shocked me the most was that everyone there were so happy. You definitely don't see that everyday.




Check out their bowling allies---SUH-WEETTTTT. They even have a VIP room where there's karaoke. Where is this in America? :)



We went to see the Grand Palace---it was stunning!




We went to a small town, Pakse, Laos, for a couple of days. Everyone was very friendly; definitely one of my favorite cities during the trip.





We traveled on everything you could imagine during the trip: Trains, buses, tuk-tuk, taxis, boats, planes, cars, foot (a lot of this!)..if I forget anything, let me know.




We saw 4-5 breathtaking waterfalls. Beautiful, isn't she?





Climbing up to paradise with the class. :)








Took a tour of Beerlao, one of the biggest company in Laos!






Is this not the coolest plane ever?!!! :)


CATFIIIISHHHHH!!


Brittany and I went Tarzan crazy. lol I love this girl!




We took a ton of these "pretty pictures" (yes, I made it up). It's when you put your face between leaves and try to look cute. lol



FANTASEA! :)