day 17: lay on the beach all day long. i read "Chocolat" which is really good. we boobed it. (tanned topless). it was awesome. took a walk to the next beach when boredom set in. the beach was beautiful, coconut palms all around, warm water, nice sand. the owners of our guesthouse sat and smoked up ALL DAY LONG. we watched them make a carrot bong. at night it rained. another sloooooooooooow day.
day 18: boredom officially set in. took a one and a half hour hike to the other, more civilized side of the island so that we could email. spent all day on this side emailing, shopping, and watching incredibly tan good looking people walk around. about half of them were israeli. took a boat back to our side. i had finished my book so i bought some more: harry potter and a book by bill bryson (his travels in america, if you are familiar)
day 19: lay out again. boobed it again. took an afternoon boat to the other beach. shopped and emailed some more. ME AND RACHELLE GOT HAIRCUTS!!!!!!! IN THAILAND!!!!!!!! then was the full moon party on the beach, an all night rave where every gueshouse and bar on the entire beach front pumps out music and people come from nearby islands and everybody drinks and dances and stays out till sunrise. they do this every full moon. we danced and people watched and were exausted by 1am (our bedtime has been about 10/11 everynight). but we were stuck there so we stayed awake anyways. it was like a giant carnival on the beach. sort of like sun god. sort of like that worm festival at school. funny story: at about 3am me and rachelle are sitting half asleep at a closed restaurant. a young beachy guy walks over and says, "I'd like to inquire about the toilets." we pointed him in the direction of the closest squats. About a minute later he comes back and says, "I'd like to inquire about some toilet paper." unfortunately, we did not have any TP on us. I told him to use a leaf. He says, "Great idea!!" and as he walks away towards the toilets we see him stopping at every bush and tree and taking some leaves off.
day 20: purgatory. perhaps the worst day of my entire life. as soon as we were able we took a boat back to our side of the beach. our plan for the day was to get off our side of the island, and catch a ferry off the big island and hopefully make it to krabi on the west coast. we had to wake up the speedboat driver TWICE and in the end had to take a longboat to a beach three beaches away from our guesthouse and then hike over to our beach. the boat was very very aweful. took 40 minutes because of the windy weather. we got soaked. then we had to get our stuff and walk to a neighboring beach to catch the next longboat out. WE WAITED FOR 4 HOURS and our boat didn't come. IT SUCKED. i got serious island fever. we had absolutely nothing to do. i read harry potter. i needed to leave. the only funny part about this day was when a monkey came out of nowhere and sat on miriam's head. then it shat on her shoulder. then it ran away. finally a boat came but the weather was so rough it was being tossed about near the rocky shore, decided not to take the boat back, slept on our island AGAIN.
day 21: getting off of the freaking island FINALLY. weather in the morning was too rough for boats, we we hiked WITH ALL OF OUR GEAR to the other side. let me expand on this. the regular hike with just day packs took us one and a half hours and left us drenched in sweat and sunscreen and bug repellent. so you can imagine our excitement to do this again with all of our stuff on our backs. actually, i was pretty jazzed about the whole thing. i was the only one who WANTED to do the hike and in fact had recommended it the day before but got voted out. we started the trek at 9:30 in the morning, went very very slowly. sweat a lot. got out of breath a lot. but we made it!!! it only took us 3 hours. once on the other side we emailed and ate lunch and then caught a 5pm ferry to the mainland. thank god we made it to firm ground. i vowed never again to step on another island. (broke that promise just two days later.) at night we slept at the most sleazy hotel you will ever not lay your eyes on. the lobby was really just a hallway, the floor was done in wallpaper wood print, the walls didn't reach the ceilings and so you could hear everything in every room. but we had beds and showers and toilets, which is what counted.
island quotes:
"We have our own appetizers." (rachelle, pointing out that in fact we did bring snack food to every restaurant we ate at)
"some crazy shit just happened in my book!!" (Linda, who was reading Harry Potter)
"miriam, you have a piece of seaweed on your chin." (rachelle to miriam on the long-tail boat)
"so that's the second time I've been shat on by an animal." (miriam, who took it all in good stride)
"now i know why Cast Away was so boring." (adina while bored to tears on island)
"Lets boob it!!!"
"I'll have the chicken sandwich, please." (rachelle, who ate a chicken sandwich for 5 meals in a row.)
"Thai Pee-poe" (miriam, imitating the Thai. for some reason, this never stopped being funny.)
"The best thing about Perm in that his name is Permpoon." (adina, about our cooking teacher in chang-mai. like miriam's imitation, this has not ceased to amuse us either.)
at the full moon party, rachelle and i wrote "pachotch" down our arms with black light paint. this bred a whole host of pachotch quotes:
- your pachotch is dripping
- your pachotch is still wet
- our pachotches are sticking together
- your pachotch is brighter than mine
- can you see my pachotch?
- my pachotch is bigger than yours
- that guy just touched my pachotch!
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