::cough cough::
you'd think i had pnuemonia by the way i'm coughing! I'm flanked in the computer room by two chain smokers. im kinda dying here so this will be brief, well... prolly not on second thought.
Today we rented bikes and drove down to the river and rafted down the river for an hour and a half in a bamboo raft. The kid was working really hard to pole us down the river. It's funny, even on the river there were boats with people trying to sell us stuff, only food though- thank god. It was really beautiful though, and I'm glad we went. We talked them down to half the price, good enough for me. I don't know whether or not we got ripped off, but I'm trying not to care that much. I'm getting really tired of always wondering whether or not someone is trying to rip me off when i talk to them, it's really tiring being so suspicious. Tomorrow some guy offered to show us around in a motorcycle, not sure if we'll pick him up on that.
So today riding the bicycle i thought we were going to die again. That feeling is becoming too familiar... I'm just minding my business, on the side of the road, going at medium speed on my bike and these DAMN HONKING buses pass me- blaring on their horn. It surprised me so much I jumped and almost lost control of the bike and went straight into it. I've pretty much accepted that to cross the road you just need to suck it up and plow into oncoming traffic like you don't care about your life at all, else be stuck at the roadside for an hour waiting for a safe time to cross.
Hmm... I feel bad, these girls at our hostel were really friendly and invited us to all sorts of things, but we'd rather just do things on our own, not in a big group like them so we're just like "no. no. no" and i hope we didn't come off like we were trying to avoid them...
Today we rented bikes and drove down to the river and rafted down the river for an hour and a half in a bamboo raft. The kid was working really hard to pole us down the river. It's funny, even on the river there were boats with people trying to sell us stuff, only food though- thank god. It was really beautiful though, and I'm glad we went. We talked them down to half the price, good enough for me. I don't know whether or not we got ripped off, but I'm trying not to care that much. I'm getting really tired of always wondering whether or not someone is trying to rip me off when i talk to them, it's really tiring being so suspicious. Tomorrow some guy offered to show us around in a motorcycle, not sure if we'll pick him up on that.
So today riding the bicycle i thought we were going to die again. That feeling is becoming too familiar... I'm just minding my business, on the side of the road, going at medium speed on my bike and these DAMN HONKING buses pass me- blaring on their horn. It surprised me so much I jumped and almost lost control of the bike and went straight into it. I've pretty much accepted that to cross the road you just need to suck it up and plow into oncoming traffic like you don't care about your life at all, else be stuck at the roadside for an hour waiting for a safe time to cross.
Hmm... I feel bad, these girls at our hostel were really friendly and invited us to all sorts of things, but we'd rather just do things on our own, not in a big group like them so we're just like "no. no. no" and i hope we didn't come off like we were trying to avoid them...