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ok im gonna just jump back to where i was. to laura drewyor it is a rotary trip but at this point chalumchai has pretty much handled everythign and we go and help with the alst stages of the instalations none of which have happend while we have been here. we have visited some of teh rotary members but not really visited a club meeting. i did not take any gifts this time but all i have recieved a gift which was a pillow which i will explain in this post if i have tiem since its a going to be a long one and i am once again on a timer computer which is lame. and when we went to chattenbury and visited the famous gem market there i did pick up a few things as gifts but it was very explensive and hard to find prices that werent completely outrageous. and for dad chattenbury is south of bangkok and when we were at the snake show and the boy was bitten all of the other snake handlers did not move but the crowd around the small stage was in complete shock. even after his turn was over no one rushed to him at all. from what i understand the children who do that only get snakes wild a small amount of poison which has subtle affects on the body. and you want me to say something in thai. sowateacawp which is a traditional greeting when meeting someone. when you say this you also put your hands in a prayer position in front of you and give a slight bow. ad to heather i did not order all that sushi in the picture is was made at a market and you can buy it by piece which is about 2 baht. so to explain the sushi to dollar ratio 30 baht are in a dollar and one piece only costs 2 baht. a man can eat himself silly on sushi for a dollar. now on to teh days that i am goign to have to catch up on. ok well first was the day that bill left the day before for bangkok to pick up frank. chris and i were able to wake up late and kinda hang out for a little while before we went into town to explore. lek was goign to pick us up at our apartment at noon which gave a couple hours to journeyinto town and take in what we could while were there. we wandered around for a little while and not finding anything of any real importance we let time drift. at about 11 we decided to try to fidn the number 8 truck/bus back to the aparemtn but just our luck we had gotten completely lost and had to take a not so cheap tuk tuk. we got back to the apartment in plenty of time and met lek who picked us up and took us to the train station to get bill and frank and then would take us all to lunch. we waited for about half an hour before the two of them arrived and then she took us to a Vietnamese restuarant just around the corner from teh bus station. we ate nothing and then left to go back to the apartment. frank would end up staying in chelumchais house for the short amount of time he would be staying ere. after that we ended up gettign picked up later that night again to go out to dinner. chelumchai took us to one of teh nicer steakhouses in town and told us to oder whatever we wanted. let me take this opportunity to just say that chelumchai has been the most amazing host ever. he has taken care of about half of our meals and not only that but helped to stock our apartment refrigerator with a helpful amount of muchies. but yes back to dinner... since it was more of a american european type resuarant i simply got a grilled chicken sandwich (sorry guys i know its not very out of teh box). durign our dinner they had thai musicians come out and play many different acoustic songs mostly being songs americans would recognise. beetles, simon and garfunkle, ect... we ended up eating dessert which was ice cream. which was no suprise but not unwelcomed either . after that we went back to the hotel and basically crashed for teh next day we were to attedn the dedication of a purication system at a small school. we woke up semi early and got our showers and put on our somewhat nice clothes we arrived just as the ceremony was startign and everyone who had participated in giving the school the system was giving a beautiful flower lai/lay. we sat through the ceremony which had some of the small students perform a traditional fishing dance. the children who did it were so young you could tell their mental fixing was miles away. after that bill did a aspeach and frank did a speach. and then we were allowed to look ni on the students as they were in class which was absolutely a beautiful experience. after that they turned on the system to hand out glasses of water to teh important heads of the ceremony. and after all taht was said and done they were to have frank cut the ribbon in which the system was installed. the building was built solely for the purpose of housing the structure and looked to be perfect for the simple task to which it had been aquited. after the ceremony was over we were brought to what looked to be a meeting hall and were served lunch. with lek not there i thought for once i would be able to eat a normal sized meal in which i would not have food forced on me like i was a cow being fattened up for slaughter. but we ate our food and with many natives there i had too many different kinds of food brought to me on too many plates . after the meal was over the dessert fruit which i throughly enjoyed. one was mangosteen which might be one of the best fruits even as far as i am cnocered. it is sweet and very good. after i had eaten a good portion of fruit we started back to the car or in my case waddled, and were presented gifts on the way to the car. rfash and bill were presented notes and memorabilia, to commemorate the occaisonalong with two traditional thai pillows. since the vilaage had not expected chris and i to be they did not have any real gifts ready for us but they managed to scrounge up two more pillows to give us. to describe the pillows in short they look like elongated tissue boxes and are probably just as soft as the cardcoard from one. we got into chelumchais car and took our hour long trip back to the apartment and fromt here just chilled out untill we were picked up again to go to chelumchai's son's birthday dinner. having been taken to a nice dinner before we couldnt imagine what we were in for then. we pulled up at one of the nicest hotels in khon kaen where chelumchai and lek had rented out a private room for their sons birthday dinner. to say the least the basement where the retuarant was was done in beautiful chinese style and the dinner itself was elegant and absolutely amazingthere were 7 courses all of which were extravagantly amazing. but once again we are going to have to hold off on the story and take a time out because i am on the 2 minute marker again. i will try to borrow the laptop from bill if he will allow cause im tired of paying to rush through my story. because of the time difference i should prolly be able to finish this post by at least noon for you all reading so look for another one later if you are already up.