the Jolly Pink Giant

Whereas I wanted to write soo much stuff in Thailand, and had to restrict myself, here I don't really feel the need to write to much.

Oh to clear up any confusion, Jade is a girl. She's 19 from England. In my last blog, I simply meant that I had made a friend, not that I had met a boy.

So aside from the past two days because I have felt a little under the weather, I have had an Ok time.

In the life of Lacy...generally.

~I awake around 830am, and I shower.
~At 930am, I go to the Bakery, which is a restaurant two doors down from the hotel. Usually some of the other volunteers are there as well, and I eat with them.
~Jade and I teach at 1030am, for one hour at Crazy Kim's Bar. Then we plan for the next day.
~At noon, I spend sometime online, emailing, updating pictures and blogs etc.
~1230pm I go eat lunch, usually with Kat, at the other bakery near Kim's(where the bar/classroom is)
~After lunch, I go back change into my bikini and head to the beach. Usually I go with Ryan, Nana, and Jade.
~At the beach we just chill out in the water, read, or talk.
~We leave at about 4pm. A few days we have went shopping, at the market in the city, or just along the beach.
~Jade and I have been trying, athough fairly unsuccessfully to hit up the pool for laps. Since I am a girl though, I haven't been able to the past few days. If you catch my drift. This happens about 6pm
~Jade and I teach another class at 7pm for one hour.
~Then we find somewhere to eat.
~Showertime around 9pm, I usually wind up in my room for over an hour because some silly movie is on like Sleepover, or Mighty Ducks.
~Then its time to go out. We either start at Crazy Kim's and play pool, or cards or some other type of game. We have only been out hardcore one night. We went to a bar called Why Not? and it's airconditioned.
~Usually I'm in bed by midnight, after shmoozing, playing and relaxing.

That's a day in the life of me. Now that I have done it once, I will never do it again, don't worry. But in general, I spend mornings and evenings teaching and the middle of the day is spent lounging about. I guess my life isn't too tough!!

Oh random funny story. So there is this girl Nan, who is a favorite among the volunteers. She's 11. She goes to class and gets tutored. She is very bright. Yesterday, at the 7pm class, Nan's dad Don showed up and introduced himself to me. He recognized me instantly because he said Nan has been talking about me alot. Since the 7pm class is mainly conversation, I figured that would be a good conversation point, and asked him what she said about me.
"Oh, well, she says you are very fat(while holding his hands out like I am 400 pounds). Very happy too and very clear." He then sees the shocked look on my face, and was like, no offense. She really likes you alot.
Yeah, I'm aware I am not a supermodel by any means, but my weight complex has just increased tenfold unfortunately. Especially since none of the clothes here fit me because the Vietnamese are so small. I'm sure they think of me like the Jolly Pink Giant. Actually, that's exactly what they think of me. They've told me so. I'm a happy humonogous giant, who loves the color pink.

So it has been a very enlightening experience. I am glad to hear how many people are reading this and keeping up with me. I really appreciate it. Although this place is basically devoid of culture, I will write about the area a little more in upcoming entries. We are also planning on going away this weekend and next weekend, so I might have some more interesting things to say. I even might take pictures. In this whole week I have taken 6 pictures. For me, that's a travesty!!

Peace out!