Congratulations for not being a typical risk-averse member of the most secure generation in history. Best of luck.
I hope you take a ton of picures and write a journal. Years from now you can look back.
heck years from now write a book and retire on the royalties!
I did two more dives yesterday. Both were much better (although still not great) than the first two I made. Both were reef dives, not much to write about except that I saw a puffer fish bigger than a pro-sized football. The second dive, however was a ton of fun. It was a drift dive. For those of you who arent divers, a drift dive is when you jump off the boat, descend, and drift with the current, then surface. Upon surfacing, you inflate a marker buoy and the boat comes to pick you up. Easy.
This dive was especially fun because while we were under, a “storm” came rolling in and we were hanging out in about 5 foot swells and whitecaps for about 10 minutes waiting for the boat to come get us. Getting on the boat was a ton of fun, too. The big swells actually make it very easy or very hard to get back on the boat, luckily, I got on the ladder just in time for an easy entry.
Back on the boat, heading back to the dock, we went up to the hang out deck, only to find log books, towels, waterbottles, and whatever else was on a table…anywhere but on the tables.
Whilst hanging out, heading back, conversation led to the one gallon milk challenge. Three people bet they could drink a gallon of 2%milk in half an hour, and hold it down for 15 minutes after that. All things hilarious occurred not 4 hours later. Not one of them did it, and not one of them had a drop of milk left in their stomach after puking for what seemed like 15 minutes straight. A couple of the kids took pictures [and some video], so if you’re into that sort of thing, I’ll post a few when I get them.
One thing I’ve noticed, is that basically everyone here smokes. I’m one of 5 interns, out of about 25 total, who doesn’t smoke cigarettes. We’re all basically outdoors all the time, so its not too bad, just kind of an annoyance. I think every living human being in the UK smokes. I’m sure some people on here can help me out on that notion.
That said, a few of the guys left Lek’s (the open air restaurant conveniently located right outside of our appartment building) to hang out in Brandon’s room. And by “hang out” I mean smoke a mildly ridiculous amount of weed. I got an invitation, so I happily joined them. As nice as everyone is during the day, they’re all much nicer while all smoking weed in a room watching “football.” (Soccer.) About a dozen people ended up smoking about a dozen spliffs and got high as shit. Sidenote: A massive bag of weed, probably close to an ounce, costs roughly 35 USD. I thought that was mildly funny, considering everything here- even marijuana- is cheap as shit.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that when someone asks if you like “spicy food” say no. Spicy food in Thailand is insanely spicy. I had thai seafood salad the other day, which in and of itself was awesome. It wasn’t even that spicy while I was eating it, however, when I finished, I drank about 3 liters of water over the course of the next half an hour trying to get the burning sensation that may or may not have caused permanent damage to my tastebuds, out of my mouth.
Tommorow I’ll be in the pool with an instructor helping them with a class, or working with a few other interns with an IDC instructor to refine our skills. I’ll probably have another post tommorow after whichever I end up doing.
Pattaya sunset.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
This dive was especially fun because while we were under, a “storm” came rolling in and we were hanging out in about 5 foot swells and whitecaps for about 10 minutes waiting for the boat to come get us. Getting on the boat was a ton of fun, too. The big swells actually make it very easy or very hard to get back on the boat, luckily, I got on the ladder just in time for an easy entry.
I think every living human being in the UK smokes. I’m sure some people on here can help me out on that notion.
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Drift dives are brilliant. Best fun I’ve had is going out on a RIB to dive the Thistlegorm in the red sea. Sea was so rough, one girl tore up the ligaments in her ankles just getting into the RIB from the boat (she still dived though, that takes guts). Anyway, trying to get back on the RIB in big arse waves, I had to ‘lift’ two of the shorter guys so they could get a hand to it, even finning like mad, they couldn’t time it right or get enough height to get on.
As for the smoking, no, not everyone smokes. I live in a small town and I’ve noticed that since the smoking ban in bars and restaurants not a lot of people around here smoke (I’d say maybe 15% of the people I see out in pubs smoke). I work in a larger town (Ipswich, if anyone’s interested), and a lot of the people I work with or see out smoke there. So, from what I’ve noticed, the larger the place, the more people smoke.
Glad the diving’s getting better 
[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
Aha yes, spicy seafood salad is f-huggin spicy!
No we don’t all smoke in the UK.
Yiou were lucky to get some good, cheap weed. Or maybe I just look like the kind of guy who deserves to pay full price, haha!
I guess it helps that the other potheads had been there a while, establishing local contacts and all that.
Crystal meth is apparantly becoming a problem out there. They call it Ya-bah ‘bad medicine’ and if you are caught with it, woe betide you. Even a westerner might not be able to bribe his way clear.
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I agree about the smoking bro - no we don’t all smoke.
Bushy - it’s not that you look like you should pay full price, you just sound like it lol!
Ah and crystal meth - damn - avoid like the plague unless you want to swing from a rope. I have a story or two about that shit for another thread - or maybe a drunken converstaion between T-buddies one evening. For here and now, just stay well clear.
Yesterday the pool session went OK. I surely need to learn a few things about being an instructor. Up until now, I’ve done the required skills with no problems. Now I have to demonstrate them. The worst part about it, really, is doing them slow enough and exaggerating the movements for students. The instructor was pretty cute, too.
Last night, all of the interns took two other new interns and I out for our “initiation.” Fucking hell. Here are the parts I remember:
We drank a few beers downstairs at Lek’s before we even went out, then had two buckets at a kick back type bar, then went to open air bar- the “regular” aquanauts bar- where, you guessed it, drank some more. After getting not quite drunk enough for the following events, the interns lined up a few Thai delecacies for us to eat. It started with a worm, then a frog, leech, a massive fucking cricket, a cockroach about the size of an average Rx medecine tube, and then a scorpion that was close to 4 inches long.
After eating all of that shit, and managing to keep it down, we continued on drinking heavily. Soonafter, we went to a go-go bar that we proceeded to keep drinking and watch a couple shows. After about an hour there, we went back to open air bar and I proceeded to drink more beer, and much to my demise, a few interns bought me shots. From what I was told, I took about 4 shots in about 10 minutes. Shit happens, right? Well, I made it out to the curb to throw it all back up, along with the nasty-ass shit I had eaten a little while before. Surprisingly, and fortunately, I didn’t get hit by a car.
So I made it back to the bar, and continued drinking beer only. It seemed like a good idea at the time. And, well, it wasn’t all that bad being as it was I just got drunker and didn’t throw up again.
Then the interns took me to 3 more go-go bars, where we, again, proceeded to drink more beer and look at more boobies. I don’t remember going to any of them. Well, actually I remember one part. In one of them, on the second floor, theres a special ice bar room. There are hangers with winter jackets hanging right outside the door. My severely drunken state, paired with the fact that its so God-damn hot here that there isnt a second in the day that I don’t feel sweat pouring down the crack of my ass, I turned down the jacket. Wearing shorts, flip-flops, and a T-shirt, I didn’t last in there long enough to take a shot. Incidentally, I think that was a good thing.
Then we went back to open-air bar, where the night began. Apparently, I danced with and kinda/sorta made out with a local Thai chick who may have been a hooker. If she was a hooker, I got a freebie because I know I didn’t pay anything haha.
Shortly after that, we left to go home. I made it home, thank God, due to the fact that there were two interns who more or less carried me home.
This morning, well, afternoon, I woke up, naked, with a massive headache and morning wood. I attribute that those go-go bars. Oh, I had a dick drawn on my forehead, too.
I threw a pair of shorts on, opened the door to my room, stepped out onto the balcony and saw a couple of the interns hanging out in the parking lot in torrential downpours. I walked out there with them, and in the summer rain was informed of what happened last night. Honestly, at that moment that rain was quite possibly the most refreshing experience of my life.
So yeah, Thailand’s been fun.
Pictures to follow, I think.
Wow, This is great. Best part of the story so far is how you kinda/sorta made out with a Thia hooker. Ryan, I’m proud to say that you have achieved one of my lifetime goals…to have a one night, no-strings attached relationship with an exotic Thia women. Koodos! Looking forward to hear more.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
Apparently, I danced with and kinda/sorta made out with a local Thai chick who may have been a hooker. If she was a hooker, I got a freebie because I know I didn’t pay anything haha.
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You may be paying for it later.
just read the first post. casual tone, “reality writing”- reads well. you could probably land a gig doing a semi-regular column in a magazine or something. have fun. ive heard good and bad things about thai chicks. find the good.
Ryan…didn’t you know that International Airports make known homosexuals sit on the floor???
Guess who Ryan…I can’t believe that you can actually form sentences that are clever and interesting all at the same time. After reading this it makes sense to me now why you went out there. When you first said it I thought you were stupid and a typical college drop-out but I get it now.
My one thing is how have you not paid ANY Thai women (hopefully) to screw you. You failed miserably here at school with women atleast to my knowledge, I recall the cock tease from Halloween a good story but I dont want to call you out…HAHA look foward to reading more of your excursion out there.
I still can’t believe you just went to Thailand…but since I have the room all to myself, I can’t complain. Although, I did think of a fun little exercise.
I’m going to count the credits I have towards my degree and compare them to the STD’s you contract. I’m sure that my 72ish credits outweigh the dozen diseases you’ve accrued the past week or so, but you’ll catch up in time. You’re young; you have seeds to sow.
Miss you…but not really…at all…
pics… and not of chicks and maybe not of the crazy food you ate… especially after you saw it in reverse
amazing adventure Ryan! thanks for sharing.
Alex, Mike, and Bellio (bigballz), is that you?
You fucking assclowns. hahahaha.
Get Chorney to start posting on “the T.S.” and I’ll be impressed.
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
rrjc5488 wrote:
Apparently, I danced with and kinda/sorta made out with a local Thai chick who may have been a hooker. If she was a hooker, I got a freebie because I know I didn’t pay anything haha.
You may be paying for it later.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Touche. Lets hope not, eh?
I think Chorney will join eventually but don’t expect the most educated posts or support but you should be used to it by now. I think the term “Tough Love” is what held our sutie together. Recall: the consistent fuck you every morning between us…
great threat man, i’m jealous as hell.
I am not letting you fall off the page!