Friday Beach Day

Eva and I decided to go to the beach on friday. We never realized it's not that far from Amsterdam by train so we hopped on the train and within 30 minutes we arrived at Zandvoort aan zee. The days before the weather had been pretty depressing but this friday it turned out to be a beautiful day. We arrived at the beach; the sun was shining, there was a pretty strong breeze and the sky was a beautiful shade of blue. We walked for a bit and sat down for a hot drink. These are the things you need to do to clear your head and relax for a bit.
Whenever I'm at a beach I feel good, no matter what is going on in my life. It has a really good influence on the human mind. And luckily for me, now I know the beach is just a short trainride away. I might just make a habit of this.

Rainy Restday

Yesterday was a sunday again and sunday's always are a little different due to the fact that there's no training. The whole time schedule of a day gets mixed up. People sleep in, go get breakfast somewhere else or go on a small trip. So instead of the normal breakfast at 10.15 like during the week, Mama now just prepares something and puts it out for you to serve yourself. Normally it's just sitting out there in the kitchen somewhere and you have to get it yourself but yesterday I walked out to get breakfast and found a little fancy buffet. Seems like Sitmonchai is upgrading! It was still the average meal witch chicken, baked eggs and veggies but still. Good start of the day. A lazy day that is. The gym was really quiet (more than usual..). The boys went out to party the night before in Kanchanaburi so they weren't really around and there are not that many other people right now so I just spent most of my day studying my Thai and sleeping. Oh and I got a massage do try and fix my legs. Helped a bit but it's still shit. 

Now that we're in June the hot season changed into the rainy season. Which doesn't mean it's any less hot during the day. It only means that we have torrential downpour almost every afternoon. Tourists are bummed about it (rain doesn't give you a tan and if you go to Thailand you want/demand sun) but I'm actually pretty excited about it. The rain makes training in the afternoon just that much cooler and in the evening it cools off really nicely. I get to wear sweatpants almost every night and I sleep really well because of the rain (guess that's what living in Holland does to you). The Thai really don't like the rain though. If they have an appointment somewhere and it starts raining, they just don't go. It's an accepted excuse; 'oh it rained, no problem'. Wish we could say that in Holland! The Thai are also dead terrified of getting their hair wet. They don't care about getting wet, as long as the hair stays dry. I have no idea why that is but it's always fun to see them try to keep their head dry. Scroll down for some pictures!

Our fancy Sunday Morning Buffet

The rain is good for multiple things. It makes the temperature nice and cool, you get a free car wash and even a quick shower for the lazy ones. When it starts raining, immediatly, all the boys are summed to drive out the motorbikes to give them a good wash to make them nice and shiny again. And Ley (middle) and Jimme found these fancy hats somewhere around the gym. Very useful for keeping your head dry, as where Pan (right) just doesn't care and takes a shower. Deat is cleaning Pnae's motorbike, and yes, he has a plastig bag wrapped around his head. He was soaked when he was finished, but at least his hear was dry!

Kongfah made good use of the rain and even got the soap out for a big shower

Deat (right) and Jimme (left) cleaning Deat's motorbike

Moira wanted to try a hairstyle she saw online on my hair so I let her. Turned out pretty sweet! Even though we are living in a muay thai camp and turning into boys slowly, we are still girls! We still like to get pretty, wear make-up, paint our nails and do our hair every once in a while. It's not always easy being a girl in a muay thai camp where there's mainly guys but we're doing a pretty good job. And this hairdo looked really pretty. And my hair is getting so long. I actually like it like this, so no need for a haircut just yet..

Torrential Downpour

We went to Big Buddha the other day. As a tradition we always go there, refresh our blessing, walk around for a bit, touch the green dragon for good luck on your next fight and just too enjoy the nice scenery and calmness that this place has to offer. The day started of really nice but halfway through all hell broke loose and it started raining like crazy. And it didn't stop! It just kept going, all day long. We had to drive back on our motorbike but halfway back it was not fun anymore so we abandoned the motorbike and got a cab back. We felt like we had almost drowned. Like the next day the weather cleared up again. I've seen enough rain in Holland, here I just want sun. Luckily we got the sun back now!

This is what happends to Samui when it rains. You get to swim. The roads literally disappear. But we did have a good laugh about it. 

Torrential downpour, I've always wanted to use those words. And now I can! Torrential downpour, that's what went down that day.

After training it finally stopped raining so we went to get dinner at the local food market in town. Gotta love noodle soup and chicken! 

Early Bird

Got up early this morning to drive my sister to the train station because she had an introduction day at one of the possible universities she might be attending next year. The temperatures keep reminding me of the fact that winter is getting extremely close. I really don't like this time of the year. I like either a hot summer or a really cold winter with snow and ice. Not this wet-cold-inbetween stuff. Can't wait for the temperatures to finally drop below zero. 

It was also really foggy this morning. I love what fog does to the world, it makes it so mysterious. Feels like you are one of the only persons on this world, just because you can't see the rest. Call me crazy but that's how I feel haha. I can really enjoy getting up early some days. I don't like getting up tó early, but wake up just around 7.30am and go for a little stroll can do me so well. The little things in life I guess.

Luxury Problems

My head has been going like crazy the last couple of weeks and one of the reasons for that is that I have to start thinking again about what I'm going to do in Asia. This is giving me a headache big time. I don't know where to go. This is a problem I never expected to have. It's a luxury-problem. I want to train and I want to learn more about the culture. I'm done with all those partying tourists. I have seen enough of that last year. Also I don't necessarily feel the need to travel around that much. I don't mind being in one place for a long time. I've done that before and I actually enjoyed that very much. I'm asking you guys for help. If any of you has any suggestions of what I should do or where I should go, please message me (facebook, email, whatever). Oh and if someone has a ticket to Rio or a shitload of money in the very near future, and wants to give that to me, that would be highly appreciated too. 

Another one of my luxury-problems is the fact that I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace, which is great of course. Except for the fact that is only has touchscreen. I always use my phone when I'm riding my bicycle and as temperatures in Holland are starting to freeze, I find myself no longer able of using my phone during my bikerides just because my hands are freezing off. I either had to choose between warm hands, or using my phone. That was.. until yesterday! Because yesterday I found the best solution for this problem ever. They made gloves which allow you to use your touchscreen without freezing your hands off! Made my day. So although I might still be a little bit bummed because of all the other things going on in my mind right now. This is one less problem I have to worry about.

For now I will just enjoy the rest of my free saturday. I'm literally working my ass of lately to save money for travelling. My budget is coming along pretty well but this hard work is wearing me out some days. I just have to keep my focus, remember what it is that I'm working for. It'll pay of eventually. Just need to get there. Tomorrow I have to start work again at seven in the morning, not that bad. I hope next week will be a good week. We'll see what a new week will bring us. 

I'm slowly getting into the whole blogging-thing again. Ideas are always welcome. I'll put up a link to where you can contact me. Take care!