Update I'm currently on my Easter holidays, or to be more exact, my
Songkran break. Songkran is the Thai new year celebration which manifests itself into one massive nationwide water fight. In Patong, (Phuket's tourist mecca), the celebrations are exacerbated by thousands of drunken westerners armed with machine gun style water pistols. A place to avoid at the best of times but especially at times like this. In March I spent another lonely two days in hospital. This time I had some kind of tropical fever compounded by tonsillitis. These illnesses are totally debilitating. The bill from Phuket International Hospital was 21000bt (420gbp) but luckily my school insurance picked up the tab. That is unbelievably expensive for two nights in a hospital with a saline drip and some paracetamol. I can confirm that this hospital values profits before health. They couldn't drip the saline into me fast enough at 1200bt (24gbp) for a one liter bag. Remember saline is only salty water - the sea here is full of it! I then went to a dentist for a teeth clean and two fillings. This cost 2000bt (40gbp) which my insurance doesn't cover. I nearly went for laser-whitening but wrenched at how much booze I'd have to sacrifice to pay for it. Anyway, as a teacher I don't need teeth like Cheryl Cole.
Geordie Penguin Steve This title doesn't refer to me wearing a tux. Rather, old Geordie Steve from North Shields. He has a bar in Chalong called
The Lost Penguin: 
Like myself he's a Geordie. Like myself he's travelled to many fascinating locations. He has many pics of penguins in his bar from his time in Antartica. We've shared many beers and tales over the last couple of weekends.
Armin My Austrian polyglot friend is back. He's spent the last week in Patong. We have shared a drunken night in Patong and I've taken him around the island on the bike. He is hindering my progress with my PGCE. I must finish the third assignment before returning to work. Here he is below with a creature of dubious gender:
This is Ann below. She's just gone home for the Thai new year. Nice lass. I miss her.
Here's the family from my local bar in Chalong:
And here they are finally replacing the pool table cloth:
And here's a random pic of a randon sexbomb in Patong. Old 50yo Phil and I had a mad night there at the start of March.
As for now I intend to spend Songkran working on my studies. This is difficult with Armin tempting me to go to Koh Phi Phi with him. This is a famously beautiful island near Phuket that I have never visited. Perhaps now is the time.
NUFC look like they have secured another season of EPL football. However, SAFC seem to have gone into freefall. This does not please Guy, the Mackem owner of Sh-Bang bar in Chalong although Geordie Penguin Steve seems to be smiling more than before?
Lingo
Sak pa - wash clothes
tam eng - do myself
bac wan - sweet mouth
Like myself he's a Geordie. Like myself he's travelled to many fascinating locations. He has many pics of penguins in his bar from his time in Antartica. We've shared many beers and tales over the last couple of weekends. Armin My Austrian polyglot friend is back. He's spent the last week in Patong. We have shared a drunken night in Patong and I've taken him around the island on the bike. He is hindering my progress with my PGCE. I must finish the third assignment before returning to work. Here he is below with a creature of dubious gender: 
And here they are finally replacing the pool table cloth:
And here's a random pic of a randon sexbomb in Patong. Old 50yo Phil and I had a mad night there at the start of March. 
As for now I intend to spend Songkran working on my studies. This is difficult with Armin tempting me to go to Koh Phi Phi with him. This is a famously beautiful island near Phuket that I have never visited. Perhaps now is the time.
you never gonna get a girlfriend. don understand how the girls can even look at you
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