March 27-29
Trip to Khon Khaen
On Friday night (March 26) my dad took me
out to dinner (I ate a Cheeseburger for the first time in 8 months 9 months!!)
and we talked about me taking a trip to Khon Khaen with one other girl from Ubon
(Thisie) and meeting Curtis there. Curtis is a Rotary exchanger that lives in Khon Khaen. We decided it was a good idea (with my mom’s
permission of course) and then early Saturday morning I caught a bus to Khon Khaen. It's a 5 1/2 hour bus trip to Khon Khaen.
Well, the good news was that the bus had
ceiling fans and a bathroom…. The bad
new was…. It’s
Thai summer and the bus’s air conditioning was broken!! Thisie took a
different bus…. But we still thought we
would end up at the same bus station in Khon Khaen… We looked for each other for 30 minutes until Curtis
finally realized I was at the other bus station.
Thisie and I
stayed at Curtis’s first host-family. They
were very lovely hosts. On Saturday
evening we went to the basketball courts and watched Curtis play basketball
with his friends…Then one of his friends pulled up and said there was a concert
that “Kala” and “Bodyslam”
were playing at for 55 baht ($1.50)… so we decided to go with his friends to
the concert… because we’re foreigners we got the best seats and we got to go in
about 10 minutes earlier than the Thai people…
After Bodyslam
played, we went to see if we would meet them but they’d already left for their
hotel.. Instead,
the security guards let us watch Kala play from
backstage and then we got to meet them.
Curtis was starving because none of us had
eaten all day… We waited around for his friends, and then finally we decided to
go without them and eat some gwai tio…
It was the most expensive and most disgusting gwai tio ever… then Curtis decided that he was too lazy to make
sure we got home alright… So he gave us “directions” and he walked home… Thisie and I got ridiculously lost (we didn’t even know the
name of the store or family we were staying with so we couldn’t ask where it
was…plus EVERY SINGLE direction Curtis gave us was WRONG… you’d think he’d
remember how to get to his first host family… He said you pass the picture of
the KING and it’s on Sri Jon Street across from the Star Mart… the third street
on the right… when really you pass a picture of the QUEEN it’s sort of across
from a SHELL STATION… it’s the SECOND SOY on the right… the most confusing part
was that Curtis’s wrong directions did exist in different end of the city… which is
why it was so confusing.)...
In any case… God
had mercy on us, and we got home--NINETY minutes late… so instead of getting
home by
Then we headed off to the FREE “Potato”
concert… It was really good… we got to meet Potato after the concert…. They were mad chill… I think their concert
was better than Kala and Bodyslam….Then
on Monday afternoon I caught a bus back to Ubon… And
that’s about it…. hope
to hear from y’all soon!
Love,
Kati