Demo lessons and apartment search in Bangkok, Min buri

The next morning we woke up - imagine this woke up our clothes all around the hotel room and we had to search for clean clothes   because Brian and I had to go to Siam for our interviews. BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brian had NO flip-flops or tekkies to wear so he had to iron a jean and a shirt to go with his smart shoes (which at this stage also not so smart anymore).

So we made it to Siam – soaking wet from the sweat (nasty but true) after walking the 500 meters.

We went to the manager’s office and a very friendly assistant asked us: “Would you like some water or coffee?”  Almost simultaneously we answered “Both please.” You see we were out of money – no coffee, no water, no coke. Eish. So we gulped down the glasses of water whilst trying to look very professional – we actually pulled it off. Then we slowly sipped on our minute cups of coffee while we (yet again} filled out thousands (4) of forms.

We got all the details for Brian’s demo lesson the next day and off we went again. We went to 7/11 and bought 9 packets of 2-minute noodles and 2 sausages – please note the sausages would barely qualify as a snack for a midget. Bur, alas, we only had money for this so we had to made do – the combinations you can get out of fried sausage and 2-minute noodles are AMAZING.

So we quickly changed into comfortable clothes and walked around to see if we can get another place that may be cheaper – this did not last long since it was EXTREMELY hot and Brian started complaining that if we kept it up we would be able to eat his feet (he walked around barefoot – remember the case of the broken flip flop).  We gave the apartment search up as a bad deal and headed back for the hotel. We got a cheaper room at the hotel and moved all our stuff.

The new room had cooldrink and beer and chips and chocolates in it – EUREEEKAAAA! But just as we got super excited we saw that each item cost about 5 times the normal price. It only took us 5 seconds to get over that shock and we immediately started gulping down Coke (daar was ‘n verdomde blok Sahara in ons kele man). We each grabbed a beer and went to the pool to chillax.

Thursday morning Brian went to give his demo lesson at Sattriwitaya. This is what the school looks like:

 After the demo lesson we emptied some more cans of beer and packets of chips (there goes our deposit…)

We decided to go to bed early – tomorrow is PAAAAAAAYDAAAAAAAY.

The next day I started doing my lesson preparation at SIAM’s office while Steven ran around to withdraw some money and pay all our debt (debt is like a bad cold – someone sneeze and you get it). And again we were debt free. (Thank you Khun P’Nan and thank you Brandon – you helped us a lot.)

After work Steven and I went to look at a new apartment and decided we will move the next day. So we walked in search of real proper food (PLEEEAASSE NO 2 MINUTE NOODLES). After walking around the whole of Min Buri (literally) we eventually found the Tesco (please note that from our hotel room it looked if it was only 1km from us – wellll computer says no).

But we got our food and we went to bed with full stomachs for the first time in 3 weeks. And yes the financial shittyness stopped at a point – keep on reading the blog to read about this.