This weekend

I was very sad to see everyone but Tom and Sarah go home. :( It's an entirely different thing to be with new people, especially right now because they're still doing all their orientation stuff which, obviously, I've already done, and since Tom and Sarah both went out of town this weekend, I've had a lot of time to myself.

Which turned out to be awesome, actually. Stuff I did this weekend:
-Chinatown dim sum lunch with everyone who was still around on Friday, wchihc was doubley fun because we accidently ordered about twice as much as we intended to but still finished it all and had to order more
-night out at swanky and ridiculous Q bar in Sukumvit with sketchy and ridiculous American expat Bangkok Bill
-sad goodbyes with friends andmeeting of newbies
-National Museum and (particularly cool!) accidently wandering into a packed market in which I was the only farang. Made friends with an older man who warned me to watch my bag and talked to me about the 35W collapse
-visit to Jim Thompson's house (very pretty, but kind of a grown-up attraction, like the kind of thing I did with my parents and grandma in England)
-trip to fun food court at MBK
-retrn to Siam Paragon for gfit buying and trip to Ocean World, Southeast Asia's largest aquarium (cool, but not the collest I've ever been to)
-and then last night one of the most fun nights of my trip so far: two of my co-workers at APSW who just graduated from university invited me to go out with them. We went to Chinatown and ate (and ate, and ate) food from street carts that I never would have been able to order by myself, practiced our Thai and English, respectively, I got to feed a baby elephant that was walking around, then we went to another Thai market (as opposed to all teh fun but pretty toursity ones I've been to so far). The city is SO alive at night, probabably more so at midnight last night than I've ever seen it.

And now I'm starting my last week at APSW. It's hard to believe I've been there four weeks already, and I'llbe sad to say goodbye to all my cuties in the daycare and nursery. But I'm goiing to make no-bakes as a goodbye treat, which I think will be fun, and buy flowers for the teacher and the nursery staff.

Phew. What an entry.