And then I ate some more..

The first thing you hear when you speak of Thailand to someone is how good the food is. I had yet to experience that until this last weekend when the other nine volunteers and myself took a bus down to Chiang Mai for our weekend. We all stayed in a guesthouse close to downtown and had a amazing night dancing and exploring the towns night life. It is amazing how many people you come across from all over the world here in Thailand. So many people just hop on a plane and come here with no plan what so ever. It's crazy the amount of things there are to do here to fill your time if your just back packing. Sunday morning six of us got up really early and took a day long cooking class at a near by restaurant. We started out at a GIANT market to buy all the ingredients we would be needing for the day. It was absolutely insane the amount of fresh food (and maybe not so fresh food), we came across. Vegetables and fruit I have never even heard of, and meat from every animal under the sun. The smell of Durian fruit will forever haunt my nostrils.

After gathering all the ingredients, we spent the next five 6 or so hours cooking some of the most amazing and fresh food I have ever eaten. Vegetable fritters, spring rolls, green curry, panang curry, ginger chicken, sour coconut soup, vegetable stir fry, PAD THAI (so easy), and the most delicious coconut banana milk dessert you gave ever eaten. The dishes were surprisingly easy to make and most of the consisted of the same five or so ingredients. Salt, pepper, fish sauce, coconut milk, and chicken stock. I have a feeling my parents won't be asking me to move out anytime soon once I bust out my new cooking skills at home:)

Since we had been snacking on all the food as we cooked it, I could barely open my mouth for another bite once it came time to actually sit down and eat. Fortunately I took pictures of everything so I will be more than happy to cook for you all when I get back! After a much needed nap, we all headed out for one more night on the town. Since it was a Sunday night the bars and clubs we pretty much empty, but we somehow managed to accumulate a small army of dancaholics to join in the fun. My legs are still sore from dancing for hours on end!

By the time we all got back to the village, we were all ready for a good nights rest and to start this crazy routine all over again. I was planning on going on a home stay this week but decided I need another week of teaching to be comfortable before almost all other volunteers leave this weekend:( I have a feeling these next few weeks are going to be crazy busy since there is going to be such few volunteers so   I will try to blog as much as possible when I have time. I feel like I have a million funny stories to tell but by the time I sit down to blog I just draw a blank...

OH and I am slowly but surely uploading photos to photobucket so if you log onto the website and search for my album you should be able to find me. My user name is klmishler and let me know if there is any problems finding it. These pictures are too cute to miss:)