No beach for us

In hopes that we would be spending our weekend at Hua Hin we waited around for a few hours in the morning to hear confirmation. During the waiting period we assisted the Graphic Art Room staff in preparing the children’s Batik paintings. Our tasks included ironing, removing safety pins and trimming threads in preparation for them to be made into pillows.

On our motorcycle ride back to Soi 40, Jodie answered a call informing us that our plans were changed by Father Joe and guests and our hopes of spending a VIP weekend at the beach quickly fizzled. Once we got passed the disappointment we decided to make something of the rest of the day. We decided to go to the Villa for the afternoon, hoping to relax in the sun. It took us about two hours to finally get to the villa because of the bus transportation and heavy traffic. It was so hot at the villa that we spent most of the time trying to cool our bodies down rather than purposely sit in the sun and working on the tan.

After a few hours at the villa, Jodie and I decided to head back to Mercy for our evening class. Unfortuatnaley we hit the second heavy traffic period of the day and it took us about 2 hours to get home. I am beginning to think that every time of the day is heavy traffic period here in Bangkok. Different vehicles are on the move at different periods of the day. Big transport trucks are only allowed to move through the city in the evening so that creates traffic jams at night. During the day everyone else is moving about trying to get to their destinations. There really isn’t anytime of the day in which you will avoid sitting in traffic. Motorcycles are the fastest means of transportation on wheels. Motorcyclists even have the liberty of driving of the side walks to avoid staled traffic and swerving by walking pedestrians. That’s why the BTS Skytrain is the ultimate form of transportation here in Bangkok if you are looking to get somewhere fast. Anyways, enough with this boring traffic talk. I am going to go and hunt down some internet.

Sending love from Thailand,

Misty