stoopid censorship

the last time i was in china, they shut down blogger and i was unable to view or update any of my posts. because of this, this may be my last post in asia. I will update the moment i can, but until then it has been a pleasure, and thanks to everyone who read. I'll do a better thanks later, kinda like they do at the oscars only without the music.

I had to play

Day 155

Okay, i lied. I played ultimate today... right on the BEACH! that's for you jon. My initial plans were to fly back to Shanghai by connecting to Bangkok first on June 6. I would later find out that there was a beach tournament in Cha-am... only 2 hours away from bangkok...on June 7. So of course i changed my flight so that i could be reunited with some of the most awesome people in Asia, the soidawgs of Bangkok! 

It was a one day beach tournament and boy am i glad that it was only one day. I had never played on beach before and it is truly a totally different game. Have you ever tried running on sand? Ever try running, stopping, running, cutting, jumping, running, and then diving on sand? It ain't easy. My team was called, Beach Dawgs and we rocked. We played 3 games of intense beach ultimate before lunch and luckily didn't have to deal with too much sun or overheated sand. After a sleepy lunch, we continued our play and the dawgs were 5-0 heading into the finals, but a long tiring day of constant running and cutting and running and jumping and running some more can really make me tired. We lost in the finals 15-11, but it was all for fun and i had a great time. Ultimate has been a huge blessing for me because i have seen asia in ways i could only imagine and i've met some amazing people along the way. Thanks soidawgz!!

Day 150

Today was a really exciting day because i made it back to Chiang Mai yesterday and didn't get sick from the ride back, and today i decided to learn how to cook Thai food! I started the day around 9:45, where a group of 6 of us went with this lady named, Rad (aweseome name) and toured the local food market and then went to her cooking class/house which is called: Thai Orchid cookery school. We started off with a spicy coconut soup, then made my favorite thai dish: pad thai with big noodle, which they just called Fried Big Noodle (pad in thai means fried, so that makes sense). After the awesome first two meals we continued to learn Red curry with roast duck, then fried chicken with basil, spicy pork salad and then ended with our dessert, water chestnuts with coconut milk. It was an awesome day and one of the most tiring because of all the cooking, but especially because of all the eating! The great thing about learning to cook is also the eating. So the next time you need an awesome thai meal, don't be afraid to ask...actually be afraid a bit.