- Well I was striken with food poisoning. I think it was the spoiled food on the train. Or running myself stupid and drinking more beer than water.
- The heat is crazy hot but its dry and there's no humidity which makes live slightly more tolerable.
- I'm sleeping in a tent that's too small for me. Very bizarre.
Good news:
- I met my friend from teacher's college after I got settled in and went to his place. He lives in what they call a Condotel so he has the option of laundry and cleaning service for his condo. His place is beautiful and its got a balcony which is unheard of in Korea because of all those jumpers. It's hardwood floor, with queen size bed, and a stellar view; I'd move out there just to get a place like that because its peanuts in comparison to a shoe box anywhere in the GTA. We even have the same apartment number! We're kindred spirits I tell you.
- Then we went out and played ball hockey with his buddies. There're surprisingly a lot of Finnish people here too. To make teams both fair and interesting we played Canadians vs. Finns. One guy on the other team didn't speak a word of English the whole time. I haven't sweat like that since Ultimate (three weeks until the new season!) Canada won 16-15 coming back from 5-11.
- Chiang Mai is a lot like Busan in the sense that it's aesthetically the prettiest city in the country and, as a fantastic result, has the most beautiful people too. I'd say 50% of the people were foreigners in the city of 150,000. But then again I might have been looking in all the tourist spots. Chiang Mai also has good number of post-secondary institutions, like Busan, as well. The duo that run the guesthouse I stayed in told me there are more tourists here than in Bangkok, I doubt that but they probably stay in CM a lot longer.
Like any good vacation so far the good is trumping the bad like Michael Moore over the Bush Administration.
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