Tesco Trip

I could explain you about the trip this week end to Ko Samet, but it would be boring ! We went to 10 exchange students from the campus to the island this week end, it was really great : sun, beach, parties, motor bikes, great fun .. but apart from a few sun burn, i don't have anything special to mention :(

On the contrary, about the trip to Tesco this evening I can say a lot !!!! I am really not proud about it, as I really could be dead right now but we get through it and I made a deal with myself that I won't listen those stupid french ever again ....

So, I was told this week end that there is a Tesco supermarket really near to our campus !! The french people who told me this were really proud of explaining how nearer it is than the one we went to and in order to emphazise this, they said that it was possible to get there by bike ... You have to be aware that the road out of the campus is a 8 lines road, 4 lines high way and 4 lines normal way but in Bangkok they drive as speed (see the picture below)!! Therefore I asked them if they were sure and they said yes of course it is five minutes away and there is a road you can drive on...

Then ok and we (with Daniel the German guy) took our bikes instead of paying 50 bath for a taxi (25 each which means less than 50 cents !!) ...

BUT it turned out that the road on the side was just the "security" way and that the 5 minutes way was 5 kilometers :(

We drove at least 15 minutes on this way with all the trucks and busses passing us very fast and then I get really crazy and SCARED and I asked to go back ... we tried an other way and end up in a ghetto ie a closed area where I almost get bitten by a dog and where all the local guys were looking at us and saying some probably not so nice things :( ... so eventually we had to do the way back on the high way, the wrong way round (cause we couldn't get on the other side) and without light !!!
Of course we would have never done this in Europe and just because everybody is doing this here (and many die everyday of course but they don't have any choice !) we just did it too !! amazing how stupid i can be.. I am happy that they don't jump from the bridge cause i am sure we would try it too .. pfff

But now I am fine and can't wait to see the people who told me this to share my feelings with them ...

bouhhh it was sooo scary !!!