This past week has been a lot of
fun! As a mentioned in my last post the weekend of April 14th was the Thai New Year,
which is when a water festival called Songkran takes place. This is a crazy
weekend! People get Friday off of work and spend the entire weekend engaged in
a city wide water fight. All day people are crowding the street, using hoses,
buckets, squirt guns and whatever they can find to get each other wet. One of
the biggest soakers is that people gather in pickup trucks and drive around the
city with barrels of ice water that they dump on people! It’s hard to explain
how out of control this gets, I was not able to step more than 10 steps away
from my apartment with out getting drenched. The water fight lasts all weekend
and everyone in the entire city comes out for it. Children and parents a like
go out and celebrate Songkran!
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| Songkran! |
I went and joined the water
festival on Saturday and Sunday and I got drenched! We drove into the epicenter
of the water fight, in the middle of the Old City. We took a red taxi to get
there and there was tons of traffic. When we would stop, people would come
running behind our taxi and dump cold water into where we were sitting! It’s
nuts but so much fun (as long as you don’t take any valuables!).
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| With my water gun! |
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| Having a blast! I'm on the very right! |
On Tuesday it was my 21st
birthday! I had a great day that included an hour long massage (only $8!). I
also went out for dinner and drinks J
with my friends to burger place! I hadn’t had Western food since we got here
and to have it again was amazing! I can’t describe to you how sick of rice I am!
Later that night we set off a wish lantern from our roof for my birthday. They
have a huge lantern festival where they set off tons of these in Chiang Mai,
but it’s in November.
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| Happy Birthday to me! |
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| Setting off the lantern! |
On Saturday I went to a Chiang Mai
Football (soccer) Club match. They have some really dedicated fans and it was a
good time, we even won! However now things are starting to slow down and the only things on
my calendar are exams! I can’t say
that I will have a particularly exciting last couple weeks in Thailand… I probably
will be studying for most of it! So I will end my blog here! Thank you so much
for reading and I hope to see you when I return home!
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