Prayer Offerings on the streets

Phuket townhouses

Phuket streets

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Ah yes, Phuket Belly. Or should that be Puke-it Belly? Yep, first night in Phuket, out drinking with some of my new classmates, drank beer with ice. Woke up with what I thought was a surprisingly bad hangover. After my third fairly violent vomit, it became apparent that the beer really had nothing to do with how bad I was feeling. Spent the entire weekend in bed, with cramping, fevers, some diarrhea and a lot of vomiting. The staff of the hotel took me to see a doctor this morning, he loaded me up with antibiotics and rehydrating fluids and I finally was able to eat a solid meal tonight. Classes start tomorrow, hope I'm back to full strength.

In other news, Phuket is not what I imagined. It's no sleepy little seaside tourist town. It's a bloody big, bustling place with streets crammed with overloaded scooters, tuk-tuk's trucks and 4 wheel drives. It took me a good 30 minutes to walk into town from the hotel, I walked around for 2 hours and barely saw half the downtown area. So much for scooting down to the beach for a swim before classes! But it is a really interesting place, with a great history and some cool architecture. I'm going to enjoy it here.

I met about 10 or so people from the course already, we went out drinking together and I was relieved to see none of them had two heads. This bodes well for the coming month.