up and around

Yesterday morning
Peep. Peep. Peep.
The alarm! It's 5.50am, on a very important day. At 7am we have an interview at the US ambassy to get our visa. Yes, that's right. An interview. Because we don't have a return flight and they fear we'd stay in the country. Ha! I'm fully awake quickly, filled with excitement, but with the fearful one. What if...?
It's a long queue and one short terrifying moment when they first reject Klaus because his photo doesn't have the right size, and then me because mine is older than 6 months (ie 7 months). Not only because of all the annoyances before, including having to pay for that appointment, but because all kinds of bureaucracy suck!

Soundtrack: Die Aerzte: Das sind Dinge...

I feel the tears coming to my eyes, leave the building, get a new picture where I look like I was beaten up, and queue up again. Klaus, too. This time they don't find anything else, let us in... DONE!
"Pick up your passport on Tuesday."
Are you cereal??

the night before
We have the top seats in the bus, going from Chiang Mai back to Bangkok. Second floor, in the front, no seat belts, top starting positions right through the window in case we crash. The TV is running on full volume, I'm afraid my ears will burst. Thai people don't mind loud things, our German hosts even had the theory that either they have a huge tolerance or are a little deaf. We ask them to turn the TV down, they turn it off.
I watch the massive lanes filled up with cars as it's slowly getting dark, feeling an excitement coming up. The good one, accompanied by potential adventures, and just dreaming of them makes me happy.

Neil Young - Natural Beauty

The moment we get out the bus we're knocked down by the heavy heat and surround by eager taxi drivers. Nothing new, and so we make our way back to our Thai host Petch in the center of Bangkok. We can hear his swimming pool calling! It's a little bit like coming home, and the pizza we allow ourselves to eat supports that impression.

Gotye - Better than before

last night
Since Petch is a super-great host, he takes us out to the coolest restaurant in town, not in the guidebook. It's a Thai place full of Thai people and good food. Someone comes in and we say:
"Hey, are you an ultimate frisbee player?"
He is indeed. Also, he has some of our players from the Singapore team couchsurfing with him, and he wanted to show him the best restaurant in town. Haha. Conincidence, your name is "war ja klar!"

Sebastian Tellier - La Ritournelle

We chat a little with our teammates for the weekend, and then head off with Petch to do karaoke. There's a nice place in the MBK shopping center, where people could see us through glass windows, but hopefully didn't hear us. I don't know what you think, but we loved it!

Tattoo Colour - Kha Mhoo

The rain had stopped when we headed home at around midnight, the streets were lonely and wet, the temperatures bearable. We fell on the couch and talked for several hours about German and Thai culture, our travel plans and why getting visas sucks.

Tomorrow
We will get up early, try to catch the right bus to the fields, trying to remember all the names of our Singaporean teammates and play our first game against the team from Ho Chin Min City. You can guess how we feel... Super excited. The kind where you wish it was already tomorrow.

Ratatat - Beat 1

...and because I am so great, I already made the playlist




Enjoy!
PS: Miss you all!

Of Monsters And Men - Love love love

by Lia