First week in Thailand

On my way to Bangkok I started to wonder if I should have had plans for my landing. I talked to a few people already that had plans right down to the taxi picking them up at the airport. I decided to leech on to one of the people and follow their plans... and as I say, things always work themselves out.
I went with Lucy, English gal, in her taxi and stayed in a guesthouse near hers. A friend of hers lives in Bangkok so he showed us a good night out.. including buckets and ladyboys.
Bangkok is a big dirty city.
Thats all there really is to say about it. It was exciting to see all the other backpackers, but overwhelming at the same time. After 2 nights we decided to get out of there. We packed out bags and tried to go to the coast nearest to Bangkok, but after taxi drivers quoting outragous prices we decided to go further down south on a bus that left that day.
We arrived to Ko Samui the next day with some girls we had met on the way. 5 girls together got to be too much to me so when some guys at the bar asked if I wanted to get my scub diving certification on Ko Tao I left that next morning.
I spent the next 5 days with these 3 English guys. The 4 day course was a struggle for me with little sleep.. but it was alot of fun too. Ko Tao was paradise. I would have stayed there longer if I didn't have to meet Elissa in dirty Bangkok. We luckily found each other on the streets early this morning. She hates it here too, so we booked a tribal trek up north of Chaing Mai for 2 nights... elephants and all.

On a side note....I was trying to find a shirt that fit me today in the street markets. I tried on 3 shirts, each being too small for me. (I'm not as small as these asian girls in the chest area.) After the last one the Thai woman looked at me and said..
"You have a bad body. You ugly. You have a bad body. You need go to tailor. You friend look at you. You ugly."

huh.....