What one was that? The one where you set the couch on fire.....

Feb 4-10th, 2011
So the class ended on Thursday, and after a quick input session on Friday, we were officially done and ready to party like…well…we just finished a highly intensive course run by one of the greatest universities in the world. So we did. We rolled into Chiang Mai and a group of 7 of us got a guest house and went out to dinner and for drinks with one of our tutors. Seeing as most of us weren’t familiar with the city since we were on “the compound” it was cool to explore the nightlife and see what Chiang Mai, which is a college town, was really all about. Something about fistpumping out the back of a tuk tuk with your tutors’ wife makes life a little better.
The next day included some day drinking and putzing around, and then another party to say goodbye to some of our friends T.T Seeing as Laura, one of the girls on the course, is as awesome as I am, we decided to make this a theme night, dressing up as geishas, exploring lady boy bars and consuming buckets. We ended up drinking on the moat, and then causing some trouble in the hostel……
The next day, needless to say, we just couldn’t be asked to do anything. We lazed about before paying a tuk tuk to “keep us entertained for a few hours” We went to Dot Santep which is a temple up on a hill. It was pretty, but once again, temples are temples. It was more the adventure. There we randomly met up with the boys but called it an early night cause the next day we were doing the Gibbon Experience!
This was amazing, and included zip lining through the trees (40 meters up, and the longest one was about 1km!). It was touristy, but a really cool way to see the jungle. Kevin, Laura and I all enjoyed it. It was amazing to see how lush and green and well, jungly the jungle actually is! That night I enjoyed some delightful foreigner food, and introduced everybody to the glory that is root beer, and a root beer float.
The next day. Since we didn’t really want to do much, I ended up toolin’ around town on the back of a motorbike (Thanks, Grant!!!!!) This may have been a highlight. I LVOED it, and Chiang Mai is so different looking at it in that perspective. There may have been a trip to the police station, but we may have payed our way out of it and kept toolin’. We didn’t go anywhere in particular, although did find some cool café. That night we went out HARD to reggae bars and jazz clubs and all over town, not getting back until super late making the next day messy………
On the next edition:
LAOS, PDR: the beginning.