Remembering Amazing Thailand

The first place I visited outside Bangkok was Muaklek, Saraburi. A few days after arriving in Bangkok I got acquainted with ate Mae. She took me to Muaklek to see the Mission College where my friend, Karoline, was working temporarily for the summer.

We took a bus from Morchit Bus Station which I will talk about later and I was a little bit impressed at how big and baffling the station was. Everything was written in Thai dispatchers asking where you’re bound to and try to talk you to take their bus if it happens to by passing that way.

There was no bus going to Muaklek but the ones going to Nakhon Ratchasima passes through the same way. We boarded one and I sat by the window. Not having an idea how long the trip would take, I took delight in watching the scenes outside the bus window and I saw temples with intricate designs, unreadable signs, and ohmy Buddha the biggest Buddha I have ever seen sitting by the highway. I was really amazed. Half an hour later we arrived in Muaklek. We had to take another pick-up van to take us to Mission College and we bought some chicken curry at the food stands.

It was a little after lunchtime when we got to the campus so Karoline was still not off from work. I was standing under a small tree while waiting for ate Mae who went to the library nearby when I saw a yellow hairy worm fall down from a branch. When it touches your skin you will feel itchy and you will get rashes. I hysterically ran away from that dreadful tree under a clear sky.

It was the start of the rainy season and I remember seeing so many dead earthworms on the concrete roads and the smell was awfully stinky. Well, when it rains in Thailand it lasts only half an hour and the sun would seem to shine hotter than before it poured. This is why the worms don’t have enough time to cross over the road and lots of them get scorched in the sun or ran over by passing cars.

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