Moving Day...

Fairly uneventful week. On Monday I had to go back to the hospital (because on Friday they told me to and made an appointment) but all they did was change the bandage on my stitches and clean it a bit. After that I checked out The Cave which was lamer than Herbie. Yesterday I had to back to the hospital to get my stitches taken out. So that was my 9th time at that hospital, 8 for myself and once to visit my roommate. After getting the stitches out I headed over to Pizza Company at The Mall and then watched Dark Water. Pretty suspenseful movie. Most of the day (9-6) was spent movie. After we moved most of the stuff by hand, they decided to get a pickup truck. I'm not sure why they couldn't get one a few hours earlier. It was a pain movie couches, wardrobes, beds, desks, etc. up and down flights of stairs. But a couple Thai guys were helping and they did most of the heavy lifting. The expression "everything but the kitchen sink" doesn't really make any sense here in Thailand. Its not too rare to move your kitchen sink here, and we moved ours. Our new house is pretty cool. We get in through the tennis court and walk into a "kitchen" (right now it has a fridge and a kitchen sink that is not connected to water). Next to the kitchen is a living area. Goh (our Thai housemate) has this big fish tank with a dragon fish which makes the living room look pretty cool. From the living room are sliding doors that go out onto a small soi. The stairs take you up to the second floor which is shared by me and Nathan. Our room are pretty big. It was nice having to think of where I should put my bed...in my old room there was only one way you could position the bed. My room is pretty sweet with a bed, a bookshelf, a wardrobe, a little storage thing, a big reading chair, air con, and a sweet ceiling fan (although it vibrates funny and I hope it doesn't fall off in the middle of the night and chop me up) with lots of room to spare). It also has a mini-balcony overlooking the tennis court. Tim and Goh live up on the third floor. Each floor has a bathroom which is nice, and the 2nd floor bathroom has a sweet digital water heater, so you can set the exact temperature of the water (they don't seem to use the same kind of water heaters that we have in North America; they just have a little unit attached to the shower). A lot of work moving, but in the end I think it will be worth it. It has rained pretty much every day this week. All this rain is nice because it makes things feel a lot cooler (if you consider 30 °C cooler) At least in our new house we don't have to walk through muddy puddles to get to the sidewalk.