It is evening on boxing day and I am curled up in the famous Israeli internet cafe near the infamous Kao San road in Bangkok where you get some free internet time and you get to hang out with a bunch of people from Israel. I love the sound of voices speaking languages I don't understand and the feel of the airconditioner on my skin.
I spent the day hung over and mostly asleep on the 8 hour bus from Mae Sot to Bangkok, which is probably the best way to spend the bus ride. From the bus station I took the slow regular transit bus into the city which took over an hour but makes me remember why I am here. I get so bogged down in work sometimes I forget the adventure it is just to be living in a foreign country, how special even the feel of the humid air is pressing on my skin and the silouettes of palm trees against the sky. I catch glimspes down tangled side streets and covered night bazaars and I have left my work behind and I am on VACATION!!
From here I am going to catch a bus down south and a boat sometime in the wee hours of the morning, so that tomorrow I will be waking up on the beach. My itinerary (in case there are any natural disasters this year and you need to know where I am) is to spend the next four days scuba diving on the island of Ko Tao, then head over to Ko Phagn Nan for the New Years party and then back up through Bangkok on the 1st, arriving in Mae Sot sometime on the 2nd.
Christmas was a blast because it was spent with some really amazing people I have the pleasure to be thrown together with who have become wonderful friends, and that is the best gift you can get in a year.
To all of you: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and enjoy yourselves, your families and your friends.
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