Paisley Firefly: Rangsit

Rightio, time for the trip back to Rangsit (which is also in the outskirts of Bangkok, but the opposite direction from where we’d be staying). Angie and I asked the agents if we could be dropped off in Rangsit as they were going right through it to drop 3 new teachers off in an area 30 minutes from our school. The consultant we were dealing gave us an excuse and we ended up getting dropped off 5 minutes after getting on the van. Luckily for us, someone translated where we needed to go and before we knew it we were in a van on our way. We were on that van for about 30 minutes, then ended up hopping onto another van. After the second van (or 3^rd if you include the very short trip in the beginning), we got stuck in the pouring rain for 20 minutes (clever me decided to wear slops that day) and had cockroaches crawling on our feet and bags. Fun. We finally managed to get a song thaew to Future Park which was all of 10 minutes away. And now we were at the final leg of the trip and hopped on our last van, both beyond eager to lie down. After having walked about a kilometre from where the last van dropped us, we arrived, feeling rather exhausted. I should also mention that my suitcase was broken and so I had to drag it around on 1 and a third of its original 2 wheels. I was helped in last couple meters of the walk by a Thai man who used some contraption to wheel my bag the last little bit, I was so grateful.

The next day I signed the contract for the apartment, my first apartment! It’s not much, but its mine. It felt so good to unpack everything! No more suitcases!! Well for the moment in anyway. That night I was keen to skype Tristan, but first had to help Sara out as she was rather worked up about where she was staying. After skyping her for an hour and then Tristan and I skyping her, Tristan and I could finally talk. 5 hours later we decided it’d be best to go to bed. And we’d decided Tristan would visit first, in 3 days’ time.

The next couple days involved shopping with Angie for some apartment essentials, unpacking and just chilling. Oh and Angie also helped me sort out my phone so I was able to use it when I wasn’t connected to wifi, such a relief. On Monday afternoon Angie left for Laos to apply for a work permit, so all I really had to do that day was chill until Tristan arrived, which was at about 10 that night. We’d done so much moving around in the past month, Tristan and I decided to have a relaxing week. The first week in Rangsit involved hospital visits (Tristan needed a check up on his toe), a trip to Terminal 21 in Bangkok and watching the new Captain America movie at Future park. Sadly, the week with Tristan ended all too quickly and before I knew it, we were heading to Future Park so Tristan could catch a van back to Sriracha, the area he was teaching in.