joi, 14 mai 2009

Thai travel diary 3

I’m ................... because of the heat here!

all in all, life’s interesting, I took part in the students’ trainings at ITM and also gave a helping hand when needed; they have enough students for this time of the year, especially that the number of the Westerners decreased considerably; I think I told you before that most of students come out of curiosity to see what the Thai massage is about ...

yesterday I went to a treatment at SPA Mantra (this belongs to the ITM, too) – I tried a combination of "Hot stones massage", that stuff with hot stones and brown rice and jasmine compresses. Their methods are interesting and the guys there really do their best to make you feel good; I hope to learn some tricks from them ...

otherwise, I’m having headaches trying to learn their language, they have five types of tones/ways of pronouncing a word and if you make a mistake in the tone, you loose the meaning of the word you intended to say; I’m lucky they are polite and they praise me for my performances, but this only after I translate into English what I wanted to say in Thai J

now I just came back from their week-end market, I bought some clothes, they are very cheap, but after the first wash they get small enough to fit a kid size; a very interesting scenery there, a mixture of food, clothes, bedclothes, ornamental objects etc; besides all these lots of singers, among them the very well-known “blind people” rolling their eyes; of course they have special rates for foreigners – bigger I mean – and they are always trying, with a smile on the face, to cheat on you a bit …

I finally remembered that I have with me a small video camera , so I’ll take it with me from now on to do some videos, to see if it is worthy

keep in touch ...

 

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