You want to go WHERE??????:

August 22, 2005
Khao Lak

Yesterday, we flew from Chaing Mai to Phuket so that we could get to Khao Lak where we would be volunteering for the next two weeks. Getting to Khao Lak actually proved to be much more frustrating that we thought it would be. The reaction of people when we told them where we wanted ranged greatly, basically it was "why?????". No one wanted to take us there and kept offering us to go to other places and telling us we really didn't want to go there.

In the end, we took an airport taxi. However, the frustrations did not end there. I had no contact with the volunteer centre myself and had just assumed that either Faith or Leia would know where we were going. I was wrong. None of us knew where we were going, our poor driver probly spent a good half hour driving us back around the national park and the town trying to figure out where we needed to go. After driving aimlessly for a while our driver pulled into a parking lot infront of a bar. Pointed at someone and said why don't you ask them. [so in truth he pulled into the parking lot of a bar with white people sitting front of it, pointed to them and said they'll speak english ask them].

After all that we found the centre and got registered in.

We are staying in a bungalow that is behind Pia Massage and Bar, the bar that we had pulled into originally. It's weird that we're living behind a bar but it is also the nicest place we have stayed thus far. I have no idea how this is going to work though with all 3 of us sharing a tiny room like this. oh well we'll see.