a month already?

well it is odd thinking that ive been here a month already, though when thinking back i guess in some ways it may even seem longer. it does feel like ive been here quite awhile when i think back on the first memories of getting here and how long ago those feel but other times it feels like it was just the other day. i imagine the whole winter will fly by pretty quick i think cause i think it is going to be pretty active and "time flies when you are having fun". christmas itself might seem to pass slowly if i get caught up in the emotions of homesickness...i guess fortunetly it doesn't really seem like christmas still. i hardly see any decorations or hear any talks of it and when i do it is the gym saying it will be open on christmas for training if people want to and there are a few random bows or christmas like decorations at the mall that im sure they just put up to amuse their farang (tourist) customers. next time i head to central mall im going to stop at the starbucks there just to get the peppermint hotchocolate in hopes that might make me feel a little more christmasy.

the last few days have been pretty good as usual, a lot of relaxing and having a good time with some training thrown in there ocationally too. on monday a bunch of us from camp when on a boat cruise that the camp got a hook up for. it took a while to get going (thai time (just like africa)) and after waiting in the a/c van for half an hour and then the same on the beach (at least there were waves to play in there) we got on a long tail boat and headed to the main boat. i wasn't expecting much of a boat cause the camp got a real good deal for it plus from the beach non of the boat out at sea really looked impressive but when we got close i was pleasantly suprised. im not sure how long it was but it was quite long, one of those sail/motor boats. the deck and cabin were really impressive too, inside there were rooms and couches with plasma screens (though we never took advantage of them). we mainly just sat on the deck the whole time piggying out (i think i ate for 4 hours straight) and randomly jumping off the boat into the water. it was nice to live the high life for a while, i heard the boat rents out normally for 250000 baht a day so at about 30 baht a dollar you can imagine it is quite expensive normally. i just had to pay 500 baht and that included the taxi to the beach and back, the boat ride and the all you can eat/drink buffet.
this week has and im sure will be a lot slower paced though cause a few people that i hung out with on a regular have left, which will hopefully motivate me to train a little harder and go to the beach or pool less. before they left a bunch of found a korean bbq place near the big c shopping center that is quite cheap and all you can eat. it has those little grills that you cook all your own meat...the only difference between this one and the ones ive seen at home is that all the signs are all in thai so its kinda a luck of the draw which meat you choose. there were some sushi rolls there too so i got to satisfy that craving ive been having for awhile too. i got another housemate the other day too, a friend that i had already made at camp moved out with me cause its a bit cheaper. his name is danny and he is from toronto but hasn't been there in quite a while since he lived in australia working for quite a while and has been travelling china/vietnam/cambodia and the other areas in these part for quite a while. i think we'll get along pretty good but i only have a week left here so we don't have a lot of time to bond. thats another thing, i only have a week left here and i havn't really satified my craving for the training i wish i had. i weighed myself the other day and i weigh exactly what i weighed when i came here which was kinda depressing cause everybody else seems to be dropping pounds like crazy (even the ones that don't really have much to lose). im choosing not to get too depressed about it cause i can't really complain about my life in the past month, im living the life ive dreamed about for quite a while so no matter what the outcome of the last month or even the entire time im hear i will go home happy. well there are a bunch of people waiting for the computers here and i think ive been hogging this one for long enough, until next time...