the heat is on!!

i made it to bangkok.....finally (and it is so hot!!!). i don't recommend china eastern air to anyone thinking about it. not a very cool airline and they routed me through shanghai for my transfer and it was so confusing. i must have shown my passport to immigration 2 or 3 times! definitely not the easy "here are your 2 boarding passes" kind of transfer. also, the food isn't great.......and isn't that what we really fly for......the food? hahahaha. just kidding! on the bus coming to koh san road from the airport i met a very nice pakistani lady who lives in germany and comes here twice a year for business. she and i shared a room last night which made it so cheap (only about $4.70cdn). i was confident enough in travelling here (having been here 3 or 4 times) that i didn't get any travel guide books. thought i'd just make ot to koh san road and get somethnig there. well that confidence shrivelled into nothing when i was getting transportation at the airport but luckily enough the pakistani woman (i can't even remember her name!) offered for me to come with her. i'm sure she could sense my nervousness and thought she better do something about it! things are ok now. i have booked my transportation to koh tao and have purchased a used copy of the islands and beaches lonely planet guide. i feel more prepared now. but sometimes the unplanned vacations are some of the best. i wanted to take the over night sleeper train but it is booked for the next few days. not wanting to waste any more of my beach days i decided to go with the bus. i'm not gonna like it but when i'm finally on the beach reading or sleeping, it'll all have been worth it. i just got an email from a friend i consider an angel. my friend monique and i met her and her boyfriend when we were getting into a situation we may have needed rescue from when we were travelling in africa, after landing in mali. it turned out that she was from edmonston new brunswick and her boyfriend was from hull quebec. it was so great to have met fellow canadians (or is that canadiens?!) anyway, it turns out that the girl of that couple will be in bangkok from the 11th to the 15th. i hope our paths cross. i'm gonna go for now. will get a facial to help pass time 'till my bus. email or post comments as often as possible. bye for now.