farang food and high - so

I had a really good breakfast today. I finally made it to Ricky's Coffee Shop, which is really like five minutes away from campus. Harper told me they had the best yogurt and she was right. I had two things. Yogurt with Muesli and Fruit. A tofu and cheese sandwich.


it was great.


so "american" or "farang" of me, right? i'm in thailand and i'm sitting here looking for good yogurt. I think I could speak for the rest of the exchange students when I say that now that it's November, we're a bit tired of "trying to fit in" or "being like the locals." On Wednesdays, we have vegetarian nights at May Kaidee's and on Thursdays it's girls night out at Ranee's.. which we go to because they have really good greek salad and fresh bread.

Malisa would be upset at me. I'm in Thailand, I should be eating all the great and CHEAP thai food. The crappy thing is that Kevie is coming in about three weeks and he's going to want to do all that "thai" stuff . . and i'm already at the point where all I really want to do is sit at a cafe, drink a latte, and read newspapers.

Maybe thats why I also want to move closer to BTS. Maybe I'm just tired of living in "Old Bangkok." I mean, it's great that I'm right across the river from the Grand Palace, school, Banglumphu . . but I don't know. I want to be closer to Siam Paragon, the Gourmet Market, Sukhumvit, etc etc. too. And it reminds me of the end of my freshmen year in college. You know how when you're a freshmen in college, you want to do all the fun stuff and socialize and make friends and yadayadayada. Well, after this semester, all my friends are leaving and there will be a new group of exchange students. They'll be all excited about their first night partying at RCA. They'll be making plans to go visit Angkor Wat. Some people will be figuring out the best way to get to Laos. They'll be complaining about the library dress code, etc etc.

& me, I'll be over it.

I dont know how social I'm going to be next semester. I dont know how excited I am about it. I dont know. I kind of just want to move near BTS. Intern at UNESCO on Sukhumvit. Travel on my own. Go to school. & live near the other Ex-Pats. sounds kinda high - so but hey.

speaking of high - so. we went to sky bar tonight. the view was great. the drinks were over priced. and we all felt a bit awkward and out of place. I like getting all dolled up but I could see how some of the other students felt out of place. It wasn't exactly the best place to go to with a group of 20 of your friends either. Eh. Oh well. it just amazes me how one city could have so many different things in it. They have places like sky bar that sells a glass of wine for 1000 baht and then in the same city, they have places on the street that sell noodles for 10 baht. interesting the diversity AND disparity of Thailand...