MONDAY JUNE 5, 7:35 am
Well according to our itinerary, we're supposed to be ahving breakfast now, but according to my roommate, he said it was 8 am. This was corraborated by the hotel restaurant waitstaff so I'm using the time to catch you up with my adventures.
Yesterday, we went and saw an old royal palace. The interior, like the ceilings and some of the columns were designed with such detail and intricacy that you have to really appreciate how little attention we pay to such design in our own homes today.
They also took us to Asia's largest bridge, which to be honest, I could've done without seeing. Some of the scenery was very beautiful (I even commented on the foliate. Yes, me. I couldn't believe it myself!), but let's face it - it was just a bridge. A. Really. Long. Bridge.
We've been warned about the awater - it goes without saying to adopt the Dave Matthews Band song as your mantra while here, but we're not supposed to use it to brush our teeth and there's no singing int he shower. Like an automoton, I've already accidentally run it under the tap. Twice. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
It's just amazing as to how much of a routine we get into when we're in the comforts of our own familiar surroundings and how it is sometimes difficult to break out of these very ordinary, very normal habits.
We're being chauffered around, s far, in the same "Studio 54" bus that picked us up from the airport on Saturday. On Sunday we actualyl got to see it for the first time in daylight, in all of its glory. Ross, one of the volunteers on the trip said "This bus is even more bizarre in the daylight than at night."
Well according to our itinerary, we're supposed to be ahving breakfast now, but according to my roommate, he said it was 8 am. This was corraborated by the hotel restaurant waitstaff so I'm using the time to catch you up with my adventures.
Yesterday, we went and saw an old royal palace. The interior, like the ceilings and some of the columns were designed with such detail and intricacy that you have to really appreciate how little attention we pay to such design in our own homes today.
They also took us to Asia's largest bridge, which to be honest, I could've done without seeing. Some of the scenery was very beautiful (I even commented on the foliate. Yes, me. I couldn't believe it myself!), but let's face it - it was just a bridge. A. Really. Long. Bridge.
We've been warned about the awater - it goes without saying to adopt the Dave Matthews Band song as your mantra while here, but we're not supposed to use it to brush our teeth and there's no singing int he shower. Like an automoton, I've already accidentally run it under the tap. Twice. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
It's just amazing as to how much of a routine we get into when we're in the comforts of our own familiar surroundings and how it is sometimes difficult to break out of these very ordinary, very normal habits.
We're being chauffered around, s far, in the same "Studio 54" bus that picked us up from the airport on Saturday. On Sunday we actualyl got to see it for the first time in daylight, in all of its glory. Ross, one of the volunteers on the trip said "This bus is even more bizarre in the daylight than at night."
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