A Thai Day

13th November. 

Hello everyone! I’m really excited and surprised tonight. I just came from one of the most beautiful nights of my life, seriously! You’ll know about it soon, but I’m also telling you my whole day. I woke up at 8:00 am, and went to my job (yes, I have one!) in the central theater of the city. I’m the assistant of the director there, I help the actors in the presentations and I organize everything with the director. It’s an awesome job for me because I’ve always loved musical theater so actually I really “fit” on that job and I may have the opportunity to act in some musicals there! I got it because my "Thai mom", René, worked with him some months ago with something to do with the publicity of the theater so it was pretty easy to get it! Anyway, I went to my job from 9 am until 5pm and then I went walking for a while before coming home.

But I didn’t know this day was a special day between the others. When I came home at 6:30 pm, all my Thai family was really excited for tonight. And they told me about the “Yi Pen” or “Loi Krathong”. I’ve read about it before but I didn’t remember when it was. They told me that it’s a special festival that coincides with the Lanna, that’s a regional calendar, and a full moon night in November every year, millers of people of the region launch sky-lanterns (yes, floating lanterns!) to the air in the honor of the goddess of the sea. The tradition says that it helps to the locals to “liberate” themselves from problems, but actually they also do it to decorate the streets and houses. I’ve seen some pictures before, but, believe me, NOTHING compares to seeing it live. It was so beautiful, terrific, fascinating and I’m not exaggerating. The little lanterns in the air seemed like fluorescent jellyfishes floating through the sky, it was magic. When I saw it, I understood why everyone loves that night. Could you imagine? Lights everywhere, in the sea, in the threes, in the sky… it was simply amazing. Best night by now J so happy I could live it. This just happen once in a blue moon for me! I’ll leave you a photo I took tonight. I couldn’t wait to show it and tell it to us! Hope you enjoyed! Love from Thailand!

November 6th,

Today I had two awesome journeys! I woke up at 7:30 am, went to the bus stop at 8 and I took my road to the adventure. It was the very first time that I was going alone to a typical visit of the place, so it was different from the others. My first stop was in the “Tiger Kingdom”! It was AWESOME! When I arrived a guide received me and a little group of 4 persons. The place is a big “green” park with some lakes and there are little and big tigers, in big fenced green spaces where you can come in and play with them. I did it and I took a picture of a beautiful tiger that was in front of me!! Take a look of it, isn't he lovely?

After spending my morning in the Tiger Kingdom, at 13:00 pm I went to my second journey: extreme activities! I went to de X-Center that it’s an enterprise of extreme activities in Chiang Mai and I did two of them: Jungle Bungee Jumping and Off Road Buggies! Can you imagine? I jumped 50 meters long from a bungee tower to a lagoon, and when I touched the water they brought me up again. The view of Chiang Mai was simply incredible! After it, I went to the buggies and a woman drove me into the jungle hills and it was so fun! I took off the risky side of myself!

Apart from the great experience I had in the different places I’ve been today, I also knew awesome people, for example, in the Tiger Kingdom there was a young French marriage that decided to celebrate their honey moon in Thailand! Original right? They were really nice, and as I speak French it was easy and a little relaxing changing of language for a while. I also knew a young man of 21 years old, in the X-Center that was from Brazil! I talked a little Portuguese with him but he spoke Spanish too so it was a multi-cultural journey! I keep in contact with the people I knew by mail so it was really nice to take this journeys :)

My First Impression

November 3^rd,

At first I was afraid. When I took my plane I started being confused and insecure. I was going to Thailand. I know it’s not the typical trip and maybe is not the most “easy” trip I could do. I thought about Italy and Greece but then I decided to be a little more adventurous, take some risks and take a different direction. Now I’m here, I can say I don’t regret anything. It’s so different; I think my eyes are getting slowly opened. People, landscape and even the air are nothing like my country. Everything’s impressive here. I think this is the start of something that will change totally my mind and I’ll never forget it. 
By now I’m staying with a lovely family that accepted me to stay on their home in Chiang Mai (a lovely city in the north west of the country). They are a marriage with 2 offsrpings, a girl named Aisha that has 18 years old and a guy named Francis, with 16 years old. The mother's name is René and the father's Oliver. As Oliver's english, they all speak well so it's not so hard to communicate.
I’m looking for some works, and I’m planning to work, until I’ll have enough money to go backpacking alone. Also I would love to make volunteering activities while I’ll be alone, and staying in hostels, family places or maybe sometimes, in a secure place, camping would be amazing. I thought about spending 4 months abroad, but if I earn enough money, maybe I’ll go to somewhere else in Asia before coming back home. These are my plans, but who knows what the future will bring.

My stops in Thailand.

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