I'm sitting on a computer in my hostel because I thought it might be more convenient but I was wrong. Typing with those meter long nails on a hundred year old computer is harder than texting on my phone.
However, I arrived Chiang Mai late in the evening and drove by cab to the hostel, which was maybe a ten minute drive.
The next day I didn't do much as I had an awful bellyache. I just remembered: my Mum's having an operation today, so Mum if you are reading this: I was in pain the day before yesterday but today I feel great. I hope you are not too nervous though, everyone who reads this now is thinking about you, too. Don't worry about it, you'll be fine.
Alright, so I met this girl Kathy (24) from the States and she had some really interesting stories to tell. She has already finished her studies and everything and was living in France and the UK for a while and her last place she's been living for a while was Korea. I was really impressed and she told me interesting stuff about the Korean culture and language (writing and speaking). I would love to repeat it all but I rather just keep it in my heart and let the feeling and impression she gave me about Korea flow. Just kidding I'm just too lazy to type it all on that pain-in-the-a** keyboard.
Okay, so. We went out to have dinner together, we ate delicious Pad Thai across the street for calculated CHF 1.50 and after we went to have a look at the old town from Chiang Mai (our hostel is just at the north) with beautiful temples. On a whim we decided to get a massage for calculated CHF 5.40 for an hour, I got my feet massaged while she was having more like a body stretch. Outside of the place there was a sign saying that it was leaded by ex-prisoners. We were really confused about it and tried figuring out why they would mention something like that and we tried not to pay too much attention to that fact. The next day me and Kathy were having breakfast together and we went to explore the city a bit more aaand... we had another foot massage. After a relaxing day I decided to have tea in a nice place with aircon (because eating hot food in the heat is awful I reckon...), it was still very cheap though. So I was sitting in that restaurant all by myself when a guy entered the restaurant. It was really weird but he did the right thing! It would have been so awkward if he just sat at another table by himself and both him and me pretending the other one is not there. So he sat in front of me and we acted like we knew each other and that I was waiting for him. For him it might was something he does everyday but for me that was awesome. There should be more people in the world doing this. It was so cool. So we were talking and than we decided to get some drinks at the hostel together. I haven't been as drunk as yesterday for a while... Not sure if this is an appropriate thing to write in the internet but I don't want to act like I was not drinking on my trip and: I'm just having fun, eh... You're only young once! I was talking to so many people last night. So there was Mckenzie? (not sure about the spelling) she was from Canada, Zoe from the UK, another guy from the States, three engineers working in London but originally from France. Aaaaand more people from the UK. The guy who came up to me in the restaurant is Alex by the way, he's Canadian.
I went to bed early, though. I hit my pillow at midnight I think? When I went downstairs to have breakfast I noticed that my elbow hurts and than I just remembered that I hit it when I tried to climb down the stairs from the rooftop, where we had an awesome view over Chiang Mai. I got many many compliments for my English, they say my accent is great. YAY!!!
