Ready for India!

We're back from the South. Our group has become 4 girls, including myself, and will diminish to 3 tomorrow night when Amy flies back to Sydney. Carmen and Poppy and I will fly to Mumbai about an hour after Amy leaves.

It's refreshing to be back in Bangkok. Koh PangYang has a very developed anti-culture. That little island could be anywhere in the world, it has nothing to do with Thailand. It's like a theme park set up for tourists to spend a lot of money on cheap drugs and alcohol. Even the Thai people there are different. No one plays the national anthem. (It's broadcast across the rest of the country twice a day and everyone stands still to listen to it.) No one finishes their sentences with "Pom" after "Ka" or "Kup," just not as polite. I have fond memories of Kho PangYang from years ago, but the last week has been a good reality check for me. I think I'm over it. I don't want to be like the people who just live for those full moon parties and are pushing thirty. I think that was my last trip to Kho PangYang.

So tomorrow Poppy and Carmen and I will begin a new leg of our adventure in India. I'm so excited! I'm really looking forward to being in a new place and being a tourist, trying new things, and reading my Lonely Planet cover to cover. My current mission is to take a BollyWood dance class and try to get a part as an extra in a BollyWood film. Carmen and I are also toying with the idea of visiting Veranessie (sp?) and taking a swim in the Ganjis. This wasn't on our origonal itenerary, but I we'd like to try to squeeze it in.

Thanks for checking in on me! I'll post again soon!
(ps, my camera isn't working and I can't connect Carmen's or Poppy's with my adapter. Sorry this blog is laking pictures, I'll put them up at the end of the trip when I can get photos from other people.)