Well, I've been away from home for a week and already I've met a ladyboy, bumped into a girl I know from Bath, been snorkelling, kayaking, skinny dipping, possibly secured a place to do some gigs, got sun tanned without getting burnt, learnt how to speak enough Thai to order in bars and say hello, thank you etc.
I've been hanging out mostly with 3 Americans and they're actually alright! They have passports obviously which is a good start, and they say football instead of soooccerrrr and don't drink coke or believe in advertising. I've taught them words like mincing, pants (for underwear/terrible), to get on one's tits, cotton buds (instead of Q-tips). There were also several lovely Europeans who were with us for a bit but they've all gone now. They were fun, but I didn't give a great first impression when I turned up for the snorkelling with an English breakfast and a beer. They all knew instantly where I was from.
I'm on Koh Phangan now and it is absolutely beautiful. We've come to a slightly more secluded resort area and it's low season so it's quiet (it's supposed to be raining all the time, but it's not actually raining at all).
I do have to start working soon though, so no beach holidays for a while, but living in crazy Surat is bound to be interesting. Just by sitting in a restaurant you see crazy things - a truck pulls up and then uses a small crane to lift a cage full of pigs, then dumps all the pigs into another truck from rather too high up and you hear them all going 'wheeeeeeee' as they land in a cacophony of pig.
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