Running About Town

Yesterday morning, Ulrich, the Serve Asia Thailand coordinator, gave us introduction to Serve Asia Thailand, and almost more importantly a crash course on transportation and getting around in Lop Buri. Hmmm… motocycle taxi sounds fun, and dangerous. :P But the best part of the morning is the language and phonics lesson by Fiat. It is like back in kindergarten again, making funny faces with producing weird sounds. At least I can now proper greet the local and ask them “How much?” Hahah.

Lunch was awesome, Fiat took us to a little dinner and I had the best Pad Thai in my life. Yum yum. Afterward, we rode the Songthaew and the Disco bus to downtown. The Disco bus was the best, the high school girls were all over Tyler and Scott. Boy, am I glad I’m Asian. For some reason, Tyler and Scott decided to sit by themselves in the front of the bus, and the high school girls in the middle of the bus were all giggling and fixing their hair. Then all of a sudden, they all took turns running up to sit with Tyler and Scott. One even asked for Scott’s cell phone number. The rest of us had a blast watching from the back of the bus and taking pictures.

When we got to downtown, Shannon and Fiat all of a sudden decided to abandon us and told us to find our way back home after spending the afternoon in downtown. So visited the monkey temple (lots of monkeys). I found it interesting it the monkey temple for it is a mix of Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and Confusianism. Afterwards, Scott and I ran around the market, each got a coconut milk, and attempt to bargain prices in Thai. We were hit by a crazy thunder shower, but we all made it home via the red Songthaew.

For dinner, Shannon, Liana and I went to the market to pick up food… mmm… fresh fruits and cheap food.