Finally broke the ice with our hosts at the elephant home. How? By making it clear that I not only drink, but can drink like a full grown elephant that thinks it's whale (wtf?). It was cute how they were all shy of me up until realizing that I'm almost exactly the same as them.
Yesterday started out so incredibly boring and unremarkable. I did get the chance to use Internet at the little learning center across the field from the office and across the road from the Mae Taeng River. Met another foreigner by the name of Steve. He's an Aussie. Finally Porn came around three when I ate a second lunch, then around four she drove Nayok and me back to the elephant home where I met a couple of buddies-to-be.
Dah and Pee Geh (the spellings don't do the names justice) agreed to drink with me!! Dah drove me on the motorcycle down to the local kwik-e-mart where I picked up a bottle of 285 brand blended spirits. Tastes close enough to whiskey. We bought ice, soda, and Pepsi as well. I prefer it with ice and soda. When we got back, Nayok Satiyen taught me how to make Gup Glaem (กับแกล้ม), or "food to be eaten with booze" - and the name for this kind of dish? Yum. It's a salad with basic core ingredients used for flavoring, that can be modified with different elements for the main bulk of the salad. Hard to explain. Anyway, it's spicy, fresh, and most importantly, goes great with whiskey soda. So we sucked down the bottle of 285 pretty easily. Then we had dinner, when Joe busted out a big seven up bottle of homebrewed something. It was alcoholic and I drank multiple glasses. Nayok also put my bottle of Sangsom into a bigger water bottle which had been filled with various tree barks for their medicinal powers. I didn't object, we'll need something to get us through the mountain nights to come...
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