7 August 2007 · Comment [6]
I'm in Thailand, being sweaty and gross, yaay!
We’re having a superfantastic time in Bangkok. This morning we took a Thai vegetarian cooking class and it was super delicious and they gave us all the recipes! Also I tried to use the bathroom but it was up some slippery, steep stairs and the bathroom floor was covered in gross bathroom water that got m’socks all wet and then when I came down I fell down all the stairs! And hurt my most of me. But the staff seemed really scared I was going to sue so they made me not stand up and got me warm towels and massaged my back and it was soooo awesome. Never in America does being a bumbling fool get you a free massage! This truly is the land of opportunity. Here, I took a picture:
Check out that mis en place action! Also check out how I learned the word for the practice of preparing and gathering your ingredients before you begin cooking from working on Ratatouille! Rawk.
Also, there were four people in the class: me, Jono, and a freaking guy from my synagogue in Virginia and his niece! Ridiculous! We come all the way around the world and take the exact same cooking class on the exact same day. My mind is still reeling.
Okay, let’s see what other pictures I can rustle up. It’s hard because Cambodia was so ridiculously photogenic and now all my Thailand pictures seem totally lame. Here, one more Cambodia picture for old time’s sake:
This is a cow from when we went to Kbal Spean, which is also called the River of a Thousand Lingas, which are carvings that are supposed to bring fertility to the surrounding crops. All of the cows we saw in Cambodia were really skinny (this one’s a little on the portly side for Cambodia but it still has the skinny-cow wattle) and to me they didn’t even look like cows and then I felt like a spoiled rich American.
These lights are everywhere in Bangkok. They get sold in carts on the sidewalk and it’s pretty.
The Chatuchak Weekend Market! It was crazy. Like a huge shopping mall except there’s only enough room for two people to fit in the aisles between stalls and they sell literally everything on the face of the earth. Liiike: food, clothes, shoes, adorable useless things like dog-shaped key cozies, pets, and stacks upon stacks of books. There were a ton of awesome clothes there but whenever I asked salespeople if they had sizes big enough for my overfed American body they just acted like I’d made a hilarious joke.
A bunny in a dress! From the pet section. I was seriously tempted to get one of these because for it’s been a dream of mine for years to get an adorable pet and carry it with my in my pocket where’er I may go.
A puppy from one of the many puppy corrals in the pet section. He’s so cute that it doesn’t even make sense.
This is Khao San Street, where we’re staying in Bangkok. It’s full of white people which I guess makes it less legitimate as a traveling destination but whatever, with the zillions of backpackers come zillions of awesomely cheap pad thai stalls that are open all hours of the night!
Engrish! Me likey. Still looking for some odidas sandals for you, David.
And these are the Pumas I got for 12 dollars! Apparently they’re legitimate, too. Because Puma places an order for like 12,000 shoes and the factory has enough material for like 13,000 shoes so they just keep running the assembly lines until the materials run out and then they sell the extras for pure profit. Sounds good to me! Also, I didn’t want to buy all-leather shoes because of the vegetarian thing, but my parents convinced me that I needed shoes sooner rather than later and I checked every single shoe stall in the Chatuchak Market but in addition to having huge white girl feet, I couldn’t abide by the freakishly common practice of selling gross, filthy, USED shoes! They’re everywhere and it’s ridiculous. It’s like the next ludicrous step after buying brand new worn-out jeans.
Yep! There are some more on Flickr but those were the only ones worth writing about. Oh also! Something awesome happened: So I’m reading the first book in the Wheel of Time series, right? And it just started getting super interesting just as it starts winding down so I was like “Well crap, I’ll never find the second one in English until I get to Europe,” but then on a whim I went to this teeny tiny bookstore next to the hotel and they had it and it was in English and it was the exact volume I needed out of like, the eleven volumes in the series! I wanted to hug the worker who found it for me but he was looking at me like a freak for being so excited so I decided the time was not right for a stranger-hugging. Okay, time to go get some more delicious chocolate and banana crepes for fifty cents! Most magical country ever? I am thinking yes.
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Hey! I love all your updates and pictures! I live vicariously through you. You are awesome :)
I hope you like the Wheel of Time books – I only made it through the first one…
— Sarah · Aug 7, 10:05 AM · #
That dog clearly can’t exist. It’s a robot, the kind that yips around the store and walks really awkwardly. Don’t lie to me!!!
P.S. I miss you!
— Catie · Aug 7, 02:20 PM · #
Sarah!!! It’s so good to hear from you! And to be reminded to check your site for updates. Rest assured I’ll be stalkin’ ya but good from now on :P
And Catie, I KNOW! It was ridiculous. Also I saw a guy holding an adorable stuffed dog and I was like “Aww!” until it BLINKED! We gotta get a million adorable puppies when we live together as old maids.
— Sarah Beth · Aug 8, 06:03 AM · #
I’m glad the old maid plan is still in effect, because I’m kind of planning on moving in with you after my years of “do-goodery” when I actually get a job somewhere in NYC… :D BE READY. ME & SOME INCONCEIVABLY TINY DOGS ARE IN YOUR FUTURE!!!
— Catie · Aug 8, 10:53 PM · #
ok, so im confused, cause there was totally a cambodia post, i saw it, and read stuff, and saw pics, and now it’s gone. where did it go?! what else have i missed?!
aaahh!!
also you are hilarious and LORD do i mees you :(
— Noaa · Aug 9, 11:37 PM · #
Sounds like you are really a lot of the world. Have a good time and stay safe. I enjoyed the pictures. I am trying to keep up with you. Early Happy Birthday. Love and prayers, Grandma Bert
— Grandma Bert · Aug 12, 04:08 PM · #