so this is my third week of teaching. it's going pretty well, nothing too exciting has happened this week...yet! buuut on friday the school is celebrating the loi krathong festival. this is a celebration to the goddess of water and everyone sets off little water lanterns. so this week i have been teaching about this festival (which i know nothing about) so classes have been a little interesting...the other girls and i from the school are going to go into bangkok this weekend to check out the festivities there.
last weekend was pretty low key. it was another typical friday night at the beer shack and saturday morning the girls and i trekked it into bangkok to go to the zoo! i love zoos. i've been to zoos in just about every country i've visited so of course i had to go to one in thailand. the zoo is really nice and they have some great animals....the only weird thing about the zoo is that i didn't feel very safe there; it didn't seem like the enclosures for the animals were that sturdy or that secure....i felt like at any moment one of the huge chimpanzees could just walk over and hop the fence, so while this made for a kinda cool "we're so close to the animals" feeling, it also made me a little nervous!
after the zoo we went and checked out MBK which is an ENORMOUS mall in central bangkok. i mean this place is huge! we walked around and checked out all the different stores and then we stumbled upon the most amazing place ever...au bon pain. i have been missing sandwiches and this place was just what i needed. i had a chicken sandwich on whole wheat bread, i was so so happy. after stuffing ourselves, we hopped in a taxi and headed back to the school.
sunday was spent cleaning, relaxing and wandering around our little town. it was a low key weekend, but it was just what i needed.
in other exciting news, chelsea and i booked our hotel for new years eve in koh phi phi!!!! i am beyond excited for this and i can't wait to be on an island relaxing in the sun and soaking in the blue waters.
love you all!
mbk is probably my favorite place in bangkok. pathetic...but the food court is to die for.
ReplyDeleteJenna -
ReplyDeleteYou MUST go to the Tiger Zoo while you are there. The girl hatched crocodiles from eggs (yes, seriously) and we all fed baby tigers from bottles, played with orangutans, and rode elephants (although riding elephants in the jungle is better). Anyway - it has some cool stuff. Some weird stuff too. Definitely an experience.
Loved Kho Phi Phi...