Thailand. What an experience!
It's been only three weeks here, or already? Time goes so fast. I love Thailand. I love the food, people, smiles, work, team, diving, rain. It's been raining almost every day and storm light like every other day! I like the rain, it cools down a bit the hot weather and refreshes the air. The weather is hot already, and it's still not the high season. We'll die in February.
Thai people are nice. They are smiling all the time, and they serve. They serve and serve and serve. Fills up the glasses and asks all the time if everything is okay, always says hello or sawadekhaa/sawadekrop when you pass by. The land of smiles. The thai people have also this well known thai-english accent, which sometimes is reeeally difficult to understand. ''Solii, al juu okeiii? helouu, vats juur neiimm? hau aal juuu? nou hääääv, nou käään, soliii, khap khun khaaaaaa'' and numbers: ''siloou, waan, tuuu, tlee, fooo, faivv, siii, seveee, eiit, naiii, theeen'' I wonder how my english will be after this season, because you really need to start to talk like them, otherwise it will take so long time to get the information through.. most of the times at least. But haha, it's funny in one way. They are so fun to talk with!
The beginning of the season has been really nice and smooth. I've got plenty of time to study, every week something. Mostly diving, but also our really thai excursions with elephant trekking and wild monkeys. We have been studying the 4 Islands icluding Koh Mook and the emerald cave, Koh Ngai, Koh Ma. We went also one day trip to Koh Haa with awesome snorkeling, turtle and a lot of different kind of fishes and even barracudas! Today I was studying Phi Phi the Island, and also under water diving in all the way down to 12 meters (wuhuu deepest so far!) and snorkeling. I was swimming really close to a turtle and we saw even sharks when we were snorkeling. Awesome! You couldn't spend your days better. Study excursion, get to know new people and places. Sea, sun and boat. Oh god I love it!
It still feels like a miracle when I sometimes stop to think that I am really in Thailand, and going to spent the next 5 and half months here! I really like to go to a beach called ''Somewhere else'' by the long beach. It's cosy, good food, nice beach and even a jungle shower! Hammocks, small ''summer houses'' where you can sit, lay down, take a nap or read a book. I was half off yesterday in the morning and after the breakfast in German bakery (again as usual) I even had time to join the beach with some divers.
One evening I was walking home after work, and I just thought. Amazing! Somewhere behind the trees the wind brings the sound from the muslims when they have started their evening pray, on the left side you can hear the sea and the waves hitting the stones. Paradise.
Pineapple. My lover. Pineapple! I want more right now! I eat it everyday, and all the time I could have more. I'm totally hooked. Someone said that it's not so healty if you eat it too much. Nothing is healthy when you eat it too much. But then I change to mango. hahah, shakes, fruit plates, plain fruits... doesn't matter just bring it fresh!
But diving, oh I like it so much. The feeling under water, you are so small in this universe. And we know so little. There is millions of small creatures under there. But nemo is the cutest! It's so cute and tiny hiding in the corals. Saw plenty of them today! And tomorrow is time for Koh Haa again, this time diving, and not just snorkeling. It's the first dive of my Open Water diver's certificate. Finally!
It's amazing. Thailand is great.
''Jag vill aldrig åka hem härifrån''
-''welcome to the club!''
