Friday, May 2, 2008

i don't know why...

...i don't write in this this more often, ive been having such a wonderful time lately that i wish i had been writing down about so that i remember certain details. now i just feel silly describing my last month in the details i remember (but ill somewhat try anyways). i was in railey again which is still my favorite place on the world i think (specifically pranang beach at sunset). the first night i was there i went for the sunset even though it was raining and it turned out to be one of the greatest ones ive seen since it cleared on the horizon for it but still had lots of clouds that turned various colors. and the thing that gave it that extra awsomeness is that there was a lighting storm happening the entire time, here i was looking at this amazing sunset with bolt of lighting crashing down in the horizon every few seconds...truly amazing. i went rock climbing a bunch of times that was also just amazing, the rock there i find is just perfect for such adventures. i had a scary moment where i almost fell on a hike down to a lagoon one of those days but i miraclously got my feet wedged in some holds that kept me from falling backward down a cliff. i also learned that too much of a good thing is definitely a bad thing...especially when it is a massive plate full of the perfect french fry (every one a bit crispy and greasey) and i hadn't been eating anything greasey in a long long time...aka i spent the day and night feeling like crap and actually throwing up a bit. while in railey i got a feeling of like my trip was ending soon since everyone i was travelling with was soon to be going home so most conversations where on what they liked best about thailand and what they were going to do when they got home. so when we went back to bangkok for a couple days before they left, i was actually contemplating going home early with them...but im glad i didn't. the next few days after they left where absolutely amazing since it was the thai new years. how they celebrate that is having a nation wide water fight for 3-4 days...im talking everyone running around with super soakers and buckets of water, within 2 or 3 steps out of my guest house everyday i would be completely soaked. they also wipe this paste type stuff on your face that is a tradition for some reason that i can't remember. by the end of this time though it had taken quite the toll on my body, on the bus back down to phuket i was suffering with 2 infected ears (1 just minor though), an incredibly soar infected throat, eyes that were really sore and where really red (i feared pink eye), and between all my toes the skin had rubbed raw since my feet had been wet non stop for 4 days. of course i had also recentely gotten my legs waxed a couple days before and it wasn't done that well so my legs were on fire too. now im back at the muay thai camp again trying to work off the pigging out ive been doing over the last how many weeks and i can definetly tell ive been sitting on a beach for a long time and not being physical. i have to start deciding when i want to come home since i have been here for quite awhile and the money is starting to get low. i just have so much i still want to do while im here, i want to train for awhile here to get back in shape and learn a few more things but i also want to go to some places and revisit some friends ive made along the way...hopefully ill be home in the next year or so though! :)