no, i wil not be jet lagged...

hmm, so i have discovered that even though im trying in my mind to forget the fact that my body has jumped forward in time so that i can get over jet lag quicker, my scheme doesnt really work. my body wont listen to the lie, its not as gullible as i thought it was. as a result the past few days i have woken up at 4:30/5 am ready to go. i already have problems with not being able to sleep in normally, but thailand has taken me to a new level. hmm..so instead of lying in bed trying to force my brain off and my body to sleep, i have decided to give up the battle and blog instead.

CENTRAL PARK BANGKOK STYLE

so yesterday i decided would be my chill out day since i had killed myself the day before wandering for hours around the tall malls. i got on the metro to go to lumpini park. i love parks and was thinking it might be sweet to run there, since lots of people go there to run i heard, but first i wanted to scope it out.

of course, nothing is as simple to find in bangkok as it so easily appears on the map. well, perhaps it might be simple for most people, but for directionally challenged sherri, its not so easy. so once i arrived at the right station, i kept walking back and forth on the same food stall/cheap clothes/cheap watches filled aveneue, not discovering lumpini park admist any of it. i think the vendors were getting used to me and didnt take much notice of me after awhile. i wasnt really in distress about it though, i wasnt in a rush and was discovering life on the bangkok streets, so it was all good.

anyways, i eventually found the park! it was not as naturey as i thought it would be, but what do you expect for a park in the middle of a city? there were wide asphalt running paths that super sweaty old men were gasping along on. there was also a lifting weights area, where you could just sit and gawk at more super sweaty old men lifting weights. i took a pic, i think that made them happy and feel all tough. how cute.

i found a sweet little bench next to the lake to spread out on and read my book. i sat there, while wataching the little swan paddle boats slowly drift by. then i peered over at one family in a boat near me and saw a reptile like head coming out of the water. i was like, aww...how sweet a cute turtle is coming out. but no...as i watched the head kept getting longer and skinnier and the body started to pop out and it was so freaky! im not sure what it was, some sort of lanky reptilian creature. it just sat for awhile on the edge of the lake, sticking its tongue out and looking formidable. i then told my thai friends about it later, and they said that the name of the creature is what you call someone if you dont like them and want to call them a bad name..i can see why.

BANGKOK IS LIKE...

as i wandered the busy streets, i was trying to think of other places i have been to that bagnkok might remind me of...i think it definitely has a mix of mexico city, because of all the vendors everywhere selling some appetizing, some not so appetizing food. then some of the alleyways remind me of kenya because there are native thais selling things out of their tiny shops. those parts sort of reminds me of the slums, but not quite as rundown. yet, it also feels a bit like a European city, with all the levels and levels in the fancy shopping malls. then everything gets thrown off with the exotic palm trees speckled all over the city, under the sky train lines that run above. go bangkok for being so unique!

SWITCHING IT UP

so i have decided the place where im staying now, the temporary place before my housing opens, is a bit too sketchy for me. i havent really felt comfortable here since the day i arrrived. i have to walk down this sketch alleyway to get here, while sometimes odd people stare at me. then i run in and lock the door. it was nice of my director to let me stay in the guest rooms above the non-profit's offices, but i think im going to tell her today that im going to try to move to a hotel. i was suggested to do that after i told my dad how i was a lil freaked out last night. so hopefully she will understand and not fire me or something. hehee...im going to see if i can move into my apartment early and pay extra or something. but i shall keep you updated...

AN OH THAILAND MOMENT

i was in this store and saw a shirt that says, "I like to dress up because it makes me feel happy and confident." it cracked me up! hmm..but it doesnt seem like the person wearing the shirt would be very dressed up though? so would they be happy and confident? oh thailand....

PICTURES!

so i have pics of that shirt and more! enjoy them...there arent many of me since im wandering by myself and dont want to look like a dork taking pictures of myself. but maybe i will do that today for fun.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55907373@N00/