But things are seeming alot less overwhelming now, I can bear the heat, it's not like Aussie heat, gee it's strange, I guess the blanket of smog that covers Bangkok shields the harshness of the sun, so you still feel hot and sweaty but you don't get sunburnt.
Now I HAVE written you guys postcards, BUUT..... I am me, and um, being me... I forgot to post them. :P
Home soon. Im going to miss all this so much, but I know it's an experience that I will never forget, so I'm gonna make the most of it.
Love you all, not long til I get to see you again,
Reeny xx
Friday, October 22, 2010
Hey
Here are my first impressions of Klong Toey on the first day, so I had jet-lag and wasnt feeling so wonderful.
"I block my nose tightly as I try to concentrate on putting one foot in front of the other.
I look across my shoulder and the sight that met my eyes is one I am sure I will never forget; I saw a wrinkly, sweaty old Thai woman rocking a pudgy baby in her arms, I look beyond her and I see sevraly rickety buildings made from pieces of uneven corrugated iron and wood, it would of only taken a breath of wind to blow them down.
I turn my head around again as I TRY to concentrate on what's ahead of me. I see littered gutters filled with some kind of poo- dog or human. They are plastic bags, polystiren contatiners, and half submerged in the gloop I see a plastic bowl with leftover rice and curry, spotted with the black ants that seem to love leftovers.
The heat is overwhealming me, my tee shirt is clinging to my sweaty skin, I feel my hair; it's damp with grease and sweat, right now I would just love to be back home having a freezing cold shower in my bathroom at home. But I know it's not possible, so I straiten myself up, put on a brave face and concentrate on putting one foot infront of the other."
Reeny xx
Here are my first impressions of Klong Toey on the first day, so I had jet-lag and wasnt feeling so wonderful.
"I block my nose tightly as I try to concentrate on putting one foot in front of the other.
I look across my shoulder and the sight that met my eyes is one I am sure I will never forget; I saw a wrinkly, sweaty old Thai woman rocking a pudgy baby in her arms, I look beyond her and I see sevraly rickety buildings made from pieces of uneven corrugated iron and wood, it would of only taken a breath of wind to blow them down.
I turn my head around again as I TRY to concentrate on what's ahead of me. I see littered gutters filled with some kind of poo- dog or human. They are plastic bags, polystiren contatiners, and half submerged in the gloop I see a plastic bowl with leftover rice and curry, spotted with the black ants that seem to love leftovers.
The heat is overwhealming me, my tee shirt is clinging to my sweaty skin, I feel my hair; it's damp with grease and sweat, right now I would just love to be back home having a freezing cold shower in my bathroom at home. But I know it's not possible, so I straiten myself up, put on a brave face and concentrate on putting one foot infront of the other."
Reeny xx
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Hey guys!
How is everyone back home doing?
Ok, I'll tell you what we have done so far;
Day 1 We arrived at the hotel totally zonked, then caught the tube (the train) to Leichester Square, where we went to Covent Garden, Neals Yard- Neals yard is AWESOME! All the houses/shops in this allyway are brightly coloured with pinks, purples, blues, greens, and yellow. There we saw this awesome gypsy kind of pub, which had the coolest old fashioned lanterns, and furniture. Then on the way home miss "accidentally" took us on a LONG detour :P
I can't really remember what else we did on day 1, so I'll go straight to day 2.
Day 2- The day started with me; being me. Yes, i admit, I DID spill yoghurt all over the breakfast table. :P, then we Caught the tube to Leichester Square again and walked to Covent Garden park, where I saw..... SQUIRRELS!!!!!! They are the most adorable things EVER, and they are even cuter in real. I got to pet and feed 3 and one ran up my leg.
Then we walked to Trafalgur Square, and went in the National Gallery for a couple of minutes, but then Ed started screaming so we had to go out. Later on we got to see the place mum used to live, then one of the places she used work at, and the café she used to go to.
When we were walking around we stumbled upon something between the traffic of Red Double Decker busses, the black cabs, and the Range Rovers, and the busy streets packed with bustling people (and red telephone boxes). We found BIG BEN!!! It was SO SO big! It was really cool, I wanted to take pictures on my camera.... but would you guess? The batteries were dead. So I used Mums phone instead.
Now for Day 3 we had a delicious brekky downstairs of bacon, eggs (I didn't have any, yuck), sasuges, baked beans, mushrooms, scrambelled eggs, cereals, toast, canned fruit, juice, yoghurt, and lots of crussants and muffins.
Then we went to try and find a heritage tour bus, but having no luck, we retreated to eating strawberries by the Thames. Then we went over the bridge, where I was taking thousands of photos, I saw this boat carring about 10 containers, so I waved to the guy who was at the top of the boat, then he waved, and so did all the crew, haha that was pretty cool, then we went to go see if we could get a ticket to The London Eye, but turns out miss and I couldn't go by ourselves, well miss could, but apparently I needed an over eighteen yearold. That sucked. But it was pretty expensive anyway. Then we decided we would travel down to the world famous Camden market. The first stall we went to had some awesome clothing, but the asaian staff hung around you like flies near a rubbish bin. Litterlaly, you would scan the shelves on the stall, your eyes would rest on a dress you thought was pretty, but you wouldn't buy it coz that colour make you look white, then instantly an asaian salesman was there, he said "You a pretty girl, you like this dress? If you like it I give it for you at ten pounds" then you would go to the next; salesman instantly there, the next row, salesman insanely there "Ooh pretty dress. I give it for you for 8£" after a while, however rude it may sound you began to ignore them. Even though the staff annoyed the heck outta me, they did have some beautiful things, I'm kind of wishing now that I'd bought something.
Ok I think it's time for Day 4- ok we decided we wanted to go to Brourgh market, it's a very famous food market that Jamie goes to. Once we arrived at the market, with a little trouble finding it , the first stall we saw was a REAL chocolate stall, with rows if rich chocolate, chocolate with pistachio, chocolate with peel, chocolate with nuts, chocolate with coffee, 100% chocolate, 90% chocolate, 80% chocolate, and many many more. We settled on some chocolate mousse, which was the best EVER! Even better that Auntie Karens' pink.
Then for lunch, we helped out at a soup kitchen thingy for homeless or poor people. I was very suprised how happy, and openly they talked. I was imaging... No... That might be a bit embarrising lol
I talked to some lovely people, who's accent I wanted to steal very much haja :P
Then we caught a Red Double Decker, and sat on the top! At one of the stops, in a black car there was an adorable little boy, around four, so I waved to him, the he stuck his tounge out, then I stuck my tounuge out longer then he stuck his tounge out longer, then I did and just when he was going to do it again, his mum growled at him.:D
Now, for the best bit, we went to THE NATURAL HISTORY museum! We walked through the doors, got our bags checked, and the first thing we saw when we entered was... The bag checker guy. Haha, ok the second thing I saw when I entered was.... Talithias bag. Okay, so the THIRD thing I saw was a whopping big Dino skeleton , it was massive, as in, MASSIVE, it wasn't a T-Rex, but I thing it was a big foot.
Then we went to another room, FILLED with dinosaur skeletons, it was amazing! I was just thinking to myself "WOOOOW I'm actually here! AHH!!!!" it was amazing! I'll see if I can post some photos from mums phone for you to see.
Well it's four thirty in the noting so I guess I will try and get some sleep, missing you all so much!
Lots of love, Reeny xxx
How is everyone back home doing?
Ok, I'll tell you what we have done so far;
Day 1 We arrived at the hotel totally zonked, then caught the tube (the train) to Leichester Square, where we went to Covent Garden, Neals Yard- Neals yard is AWESOME! All the houses/shops in this allyway are brightly coloured with pinks, purples, blues, greens, and yellow. There we saw this awesome gypsy kind of pub, which had the coolest old fashioned lanterns, and furniture. Then on the way home miss "accidentally" took us on a LONG detour :P
I can't really remember what else we did on day 1, so I'll go straight to day 2.
Day 2- The day started with me; being me. Yes, i admit, I DID spill yoghurt all over the breakfast table. :P, then we Caught the tube to Leichester Square again and walked to Covent Garden park, where I saw..... SQUIRRELS!!!!!! They are the most adorable things EVER, and they are even cuter in real. I got to pet and feed 3 and one ran up my leg.
Then we walked to Trafalgur Square, and went in the National Gallery for a couple of minutes, but then Ed started screaming so we had to go out. Later on we got to see the place mum used to live, then one of the places she used work at, and the café she used to go to.
When we were walking around we stumbled upon something between the traffic of Red Double Decker busses, the black cabs, and the Range Rovers, and the busy streets packed with bustling people (and red telephone boxes). We found BIG BEN!!! It was SO SO big! It was really cool, I wanted to take pictures on my camera.... but would you guess? The batteries were dead. So I used Mums phone instead.
Now for Day 3 we had a delicious brekky downstairs of bacon, eggs (I didn't have any, yuck), sasuges, baked beans, mushrooms, scrambelled eggs, cereals, toast, canned fruit, juice, yoghurt, and lots of crussants and muffins.
Then we went to try and find a heritage tour bus, but having no luck, we retreated to eating strawberries by the Thames. Then we went over the bridge, where I was taking thousands of photos, I saw this boat carring about 10 containers, so I waved to the guy who was at the top of the boat, then he waved, and so did all the crew, haha that was pretty cool, then we went to go see if we could get a ticket to The London Eye, but turns out miss and I couldn't go by ourselves, well miss could, but apparently I needed an over eighteen yearold. That sucked. But it was pretty expensive anyway. Then we decided we would travel down to the world famous Camden market. The first stall we went to had some awesome clothing, but the asaian staff hung around you like flies near a rubbish bin. Litterlaly, you would scan the shelves on the stall, your eyes would rest on a dress you thought was pretty, but you wouldn't buy it coz that colour make you look white, then instantly an asaian salesman was there, he said "You a pretty girl, you like this dress? If you like it I give it for you at ten pounds" then you would go to the next; salesman instantly there, the next row, salesman insanely there "Ooh pretty dress. I give it for you for 8£" after a while, however rude it may sound you began to ignore them. Even though the staff annoyed the heck outta me, they did have some beautiful things, I'm kind of wishing now that I'd bought something.
Ok I think it's time for Day 4- ok we decided we wanted to go to Brourgh market, it's a very famous food market that Jamie goes to. Once we arrived at the market, with a little trouble finding it , the first stall we saw was a REAL chocolate stall, with rows if rich chocolate, chocolate with pistachio, chocolate with peel, chocolate with nuts, chocolate with coffee, 100% chocolate, 90% chocolate, 80% chocolate, and many many more. We settled on some chocolate mousse, which was the best EVER! Even better that Auntie Karens' pink.
Then for lunch, we helped out at a soup kitchen thingy for homeless or poor people. I was very suprised how happy, and openly they talked. I was imaging... No... That might be a bit embarrising lol
I talked to some lovely people, who's accent I wanted to steal very much haja :P
Then we caught a Red Double Decker, and sat on the top! At one of the stops, in a black car there was an adorable little boy, around four, so I waved to him, the he stuck his tounge out, then I stuck my tounuge out longer then he stuck his tounge out longer, then I did and just when he was going to do it again, his mum growled at him.:D
Now, for the best bit, we went to THE NATURAL HISTORY museum! We walked through the doors, got our bags checked, and the first thing we saw when we entered was... The bag checker guy. Haha, ok the second thing I saw when I entered was.... Talithias bag. Okay, so the THIRD thing I saw was a whopping big Dino skeleton , it was massive, as in, MASSIVE, it wasn't a T-Rex, but I thing it was a big foot.
Then we went to another room, FILLED with dinosaur skeletons, it was amazing! I was just thinking to myself "WOOOOW I'm actually here! AHH!!!!" it was amazing! I'll see if I can post some photos from mums phone for you to see.
Well it's four thirty in the noting so I guess I will try and get some sleep, missing you all so much!
Lots of love, Reeny xxx
Saturday, October 2, 2010
The first post
Its my very first post of this blog, which will hopefully be updated regally on info about our trip!
Its one more day! I have a cold and a slight sore throughout which sort of wrecks the feelings of excitement and joy.
I still have some last minute packing to do, but the thing is that I cant do most of it until tomorrow.
Like the name? M&M'S Voyage? M=Mum, and M=Miss and of course the S=Serena!
I DONT KNOW IF i WILL BE ABLE TO UPLOAD ANY PHOTOS WHILE i'M AWAY...But I'll try.
I gotta get going! Packing Packing packing!
Its one more day! I have a cold and a slight sore throughout which sort of wrecks the feelings of excitement and joy.
I still have some last minute packing to do, but the thing is that I cant do most of it until tomorrow.
Like the name? M&M'S Voyage? M=Mum, and M=Miss and of course the S=Serena!
I DONT KNOW IF i WILL BE ABLE TO UPLOAD ANY PHOTOS WHILE i'M AWAY...But I'll try.
I gotta get going! Packing Packing packing!
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