Day 4: Saturday 27th June
Being the diva that she is, my mentor demanded that the
school allow us to fly up to Khon Kaen from Bangkok rather than get a gruelling
8 hour bus ride in the heat. This mean that we could leave at a leisurely time
and- oh, wait, we still left at 9:30.
Cheers then! These early mornings are killing me!
We ended up being about 2 hours too early so tired old me
had to wait in the airport and sit nicely like a good girl rather than splay
myself out on the floor for a snooze. After a short flight of 45 minutes, my
host Kanang met me at the airport. It was like that scene in Love Actually
where they all dive into each other’s arms for a loving embrace…. Not really.
But she did shake my hand!
A ten-minute drive in the scorching heat took us to Kanang’s
cute little house- just like her! I have my own room with a desk and a wardrobe
(and a bed, of course) and even air con! I liked this lady straight away! I
also have my own bathroom and we have a nice big kitchen and living room.
Not long after I arrived, Kanang ("call me "Nang" ) took me to the mahoosive
shopping centre in Khon Kaen where we wandered round every single shoe shop in
the place (Kanang likes shoes, even more than me) and also ate an incredible
meal in ‘MK’. You choose your ingredients off the menu and then you cook it
yourself on the little in-built hob! It was so cool and the best thing was that
it was pretty healthy, with lots of vegetables and protein. We also had a side
order of duck that rocked my world! Free refillable Chinese tea was the cherry.
After doing a little food shop where we found some
interesting things, such as Durian fruit (smells like crap, YUM) and these
little fruits which I have been searching frantically for since I ate one in Malaysia in 2013(!) we headed
home. I was bloody knackered so called it a night at about 9pm (I know,
lightweight!) and began a night of freezing my ass of in the air con vs
sweating like a beach without it. The
joys!
Rest day tomorrow, yay!
Olivia
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