I arrived late last night (11:30PM) in Bangkok’s 1-year-old Suvarnbhumi airport. I was surprised how many people were there at that time of night and a lot of people were spending the night on the seats there. I met up with my Thai friend, Yu and then we took a taxi to one of her friends homes in the city where we slept for 3 hours. After waking up at 5AM, we took a 6AM bus from the east bus station of Bangkok to the city of Chanthaburi, about 3.5 hours away.
I spent the rest of the day at the English school she works and lives at. I met all the people who work here (two receptionists, another teacher), and I even got to even got to sit in on a couple classes and meet some students. There are all ages of students here from very young kids to about to graduate high school students. I also took a nap, so I’m doing ok with sleep.
For dinner Yu, her father, and I went to a restaurant next to the river in town. You eat outside along the river and they also have live music there. We had all sorts of sea food: shrimp, crab, mussels. Actually a quite fancy meal for my first dinner in the country.
I noticed the moon is directly overhead here, about a 90 degree angle above the horizon. I’ve never seen that before since I’ve never been this far south and this close to the equator!
It is hot here and I sleep in my own room without air conditioning. But it is alright since I have a fan pointed at me the whole time.