Farang Baa

HELLO! So i got about two hours into my day off and the camera in my battery died, so no post and barely any pictures. :( Straight after getting off the taxi Steph and I went and split a pizza at one of many Thai run italian places. Actually later in the day we went back to the same restaurant and split a bruchetta and another pizza- yum western food! At the center we eat rice. Rice with chicken, rice with curry tofu, rice with beans, you get the idea. Once a week we eat some type of western food- usually pasta or fries(chips, apparently) or sandwiches or something. Answering a question about the volunteers, we've got one Thai, four Dutch, one Norwegian, two New Zealanders, two germans, three brits, and one other american. We spend a lot of time comparing notes on words used for different items. My Thai is coming along quite well(for an american...), as Steph had already spent a month here and taught me some words. Farang Baa means "crazy foreigner". Good for when I do something stupid.
Hua Hin was really relaxing, after our first pizza, we wandered to the beach(not a great beach, dead fish and trash scattered about), but the first Thailand beach I've seen, so I took it. We found a clean stretch, rented lounge chairs, and people bring beers right to you. I got a pic right before my camera went out. After the beach we did a bit of shopping- I learned how to haggle in Thai. Didn't buy much, I think I'll do that a little later in my trip. The about ten of the other volunteers met us around 8:30 and we all had dinner at a seafood restaurant over the water. Really cool. Then to a bar and then home at 2am. Very late night, especially since I had to get up at 6am and scoop bear shit. Hope you're all planning a trouble filled Halloween!
Dad- through in a pic of Andy the hornbill who lives here. He kind of just hops around and we set food out for him. I don't know anything about the wild birds here- I know, i should be ashamed...

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