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I have tried almost every day to upload pictures to this silly blog and it takes so long that my connection always times out. I am in the process of uploading pictures to flicker and then attaching the website to this...

Today we went to visit a friend of Jenn's mom in Chon Buri. It is about 2 hours outside Bangkok and 1 hour from where we have been on the beach. Her name is Sweety and she works on the school board here and wanted to meet Jenn. She wanted Jenn to do a radio spot for a festival they are having in october and then took us to lunch and showed us around chon buri. we definitely learned alot about the culture from her today. The hour long bus ride to and from chon buri was fascinating. The thai people are very willing to help us out but at the same time talk about us alot! I think they were talking about us and staring at us for nearly half our bus ride back tonight.

Then we came back to our hostel tonight and had a lovely dinner. The hostel we are staying at is owned by this french guy, John. There is a canadian and two british travelers staying here with us and we all had beef stew together along with some other thai food. It was incredibly nice to speak english and have people understand you, but to also talk to other travelers about where they have been, advice, etc. Tomorrow we are going to a resort with them and then we are eating pizza in the penthouse on top of our hostel. very excited for that...