School trip to Bangkok!

On the 6th we went on a school trip with 2/1 and 3/1 to Bangkok. This was great and all but it involved being at the bus stop at 6AM.

Our first stop was Chulalongkorn University. This was such a beautiful campus!!
We went to visit the bookstore here, the majority of the books were in Thai so Alex and I left pretty promptly, but not before I bought some whiteboard markers and some a needle and thread (our washing machine does a great job of putting holes in my clothes).
After the shop Nick,Alex and I were looking at the map and deciding where to go when some of Alex's favourite M2 students came up to us and invited us to a campus coffee shop. So we walked with them across campus to go and buy a drink before everyone crowded onto two university shuttle buses to take us to - a shopping centre!

Yes, the main part of this trip was a visit to the Siam Paragon which is a shopping centre. Wow.

We were invited to go around with the same M2's as before and so we went with them to go and get KFC for lunch (how Thai).

After lunch the kids decided that they wanted to visit the aquarium on the bottom floor. Alex and I weren't too keen. It was a lot of money and once you've seen one aquarium you've seen them all. This revelation led the kids to debate between themselves. It led to two coming with me and Alex and the rest going into the aquarium. This made us feel really guilty as I'm pretty sure they kids who were with us wanted to go to the aquarium as well. So we told them that we would be absolutely fine going round the shopping centre by ourselves. After about 5 minutes of convincing we won them round and they scuttled off to the aquarium.

We looked around the centre for a bit before deciding that we couldn't really afford anything. We ended up going to the cinema just to pass the time.

The cinema was huge and buying tickets was very confusing but eventually we ended up with two tickets to see Pride, Prejudice and Zombies - which was pretty good!


The bus journey back was a lot of fun. One of the kids gave the bus driver his mix tape which was just one big party in itself! The driver then turned on the party lights. These were flashing red, blue and green lights all up and down the bus so that it looked like a proper party!

I, as weak as I am when faced with good music, started dancing in my seat. PePhom spotted me and tried to make me dance with all the kids (who were all dancing in the aisle) but I couldn't bring myself to do it. The kids weren't even my students. They were Alex's.



So yeah. Thailand. You get 10/10 on the school trip front.