10. All these crazy Canadians walking around! Where we are living is not downtown Bangkok, we are actually more on the outskirts of town. So other than the 30 or so foreigners staying at Piya apartments there are not other Canadians, Tourists or white people and boy do we stand out!
9. No zoning laws: One thing that I had to get explained to me was the Bangkok was no zoning laws so that means that there can be a garbage yard, next to a school, next to a temple, next to market next to a car garage, next to beautiful house. People kind of just built anywhere they could and the result is a mish-mash of different sorts of places.
8. The rain: It is always raining on Phet Kasem at 5 pm. Even if it is clear when we leave school at 4:45 it will rain 15 minutes later as soon as we hit Phet Kasem. Also, the roads don't exactly drain that efficiently so the street floods super easily!
7. Motorbikes on the sidewalks: I don't know if it's the case everywhere in Bangkok, but sidewalks are not meant for walking (or running) there are motor bikes, bikes, pedestrians and so much more. Walking down the block to 7-11 you must watch where you are going at all times because no one is going to stop for you!
6. 7-11's: Every 300 meters (literally) on Phet Kasem there is a 7-11, yes it is convenient, a little over the top sometimes.
5. Phet Kasem Dogs: The dogs on PK of quite the interesting bunch! The nasty looking one closest to our 7-11 is constantly pregnant and the rest are quite territorial between 7pm and 6am (dark hours). I try to avoid running in those hours.
4. Grown up Mowgli: There is a man between the age of 18 and 30 that squats on the steps near our apartments looking starving and kind of sneaky. He is super skinny and shirtless with dreads and I can't help but think that is what The Jungle Book character is like when he grows up.
3. An elephant. Our residence is about 4 km from the city limits and sometimes I have run outside the city limits to get out of all the people. Probably about 5km from my apartment I saw a man walking an elephant on the side walk. It was one of those moments that I really wanted my camera, but didn't have it with me of course.
2. A rabbit. Not just any rabbit though, probably the largest rabbit in the world. It was the size of the perimeter of my arms together in a circle. When I saw it, I actually shrieked, I had never seen anything like it before. It was the fattest most gigantic rabbit ever. I'm sure it was a lovely supper for some local dogs.
1. Bus on fire: one morning I woke up early (5am) to do a workout across the the street at the South East Asia University and just as I walked out of our apartments, a bus sped by me with FLAMES coming out of the tail pipe! I was so startled and I look around to see if any one else saw it and lots of people did. The bus pulled over ahead with tonnes of smoke and fumes coming out of it! It was so crazy! The street smelled like burning oil for the rest of the day.
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