Food

If the bathroom business took a while to get used to, the exact opposite applied to the food. Everyone who's been to Thailand knows about the great, really cheap food you can get there. We would go out every night to one of the many street restaurants (some tables and chairs on the sidewalk), get a good meal, and then move on for banana pancakes or something else...


Usually the food wouldn't be spicier than what I could handle, but one of the favorite pranks the teachers at my school liked to play on me was; "let's see how much spices the foreign guy can handle". It must have been the highlight of their day standing around laughing at me crying and sweating like crazy while I tried to keep a straight face. Once a week we would also have cooking class at Meechai dorm, and we'd first get a demonstration of how to cook whatever was on the menu that day, and after that we'd pair up and make our own dinner.

We also had bugs one day, I mean, if people can eat lobster which I think is a pretty ugly thing to put on your plate...then why should bugs be a problem? I wasn't as brave as Martin though, I just ate the little yellow worms. Tasted kind of like burned french fries.