Teaching English in Thailand: Day 5, Lily Pads and Pad Thai

Day 5: Sunday 28th June

REST DAYYYYYY!!!

I had a lovely little lay in which I so desperately needed, but I felt bad for abandoning Kanang for the whole morning. I'm glad I didn't rush to get up though, because we just chilled in the house until about 4pm which was nice. We decided to go out and visit some markets: the first sold mostly clothes and bags (I bought two) and the second was mostly food, with some clothes and bits and bobs. 

Pad Thai and a side of duck

Kanang and I had Pad Thai, which is fast becoming my favourite food out here. Pad Thai is a pretty safe dish as you know you won't get any nasty surprises/crazy spice/ meat bones! We also had some ice cold fresh coconut water which was scrummy. I've not had fresh coconut water since I went to Malaysia so I was very happy! We walked around the market after dinner to look at the beautiful area and do MORE shopping. There is a beautiful koi carp pond which you can walk around and over on the pretty bridge, whilst admiring the lilly pads and sparkly lights in the green backdrop. Kanang and I stopped to look at pretty much every clothes stall, because you know, we're women and we like that. Winky wink.

I wonder how many of these I will end up with...

I bought a dress for 150Tb (about £3) which is perfect for school, and a cute little necklace. I think Kanang is pretty intent on finding me some good school clothes because she happened to catch a glimpse of the hilarious  skirts that I brought from home from a car boot sale! Maybe I should just wear my new dress, every. single. day. Its perfect, after all!

Kanang!

After we got home I went to bed, knowing that I would struggle to wake up at 6.30 for school the next day! To nobody's surprise I struggled to sleep all night so was pretty darn tired in the morning, with the puffiest eyes known to woman. 

B-e-a-utiful!

Just to let you know, I've decided to write this blog every day at school during my free periods about the events of the day before, because at least then I can include every crazy detail about my crazy Thai life without missing the cRaZy anecdotes about me sweating too much in bed.

Crazy.

Olivia