Crazy Taxi Rides

You are lucky I am writing this blog and not in hospital from a taxi accident! Hahaha...just kidding. But I am NOT exaggerating. Seriously.

Last night Num, Matt, and I (along with Matt's friends Joanne and Tim) went to church, and we were going to be late, but the taxi driver must've sensed it and drove 130km/h down the freeway swerving in and out of the other cars (who were going about 100km/h)...and he drove 80-100km/h through the streets! Seriously, I was so scared I was praying. And I wasn't the only one praying! I counted about 5 times where we were extremely lucky NOT to crash - including times where we went out off the road (out of the lanes) and sped past 80km/h drivers ON THEIR LEFT at exits which they could've easily turned into!! YES...anyway. Might I mention that there are no seatbelts in these taxis...and I was one of the two people squashed into the front passenger seat!

BUT...We DID make it to church safely. And on time, when we were gonna be 20mins late!

But on the way home (must be my luck!) Num and I managed to get another crazy taxi which pulled out in front of a TRUCK...and I really held my breath this time as I heard the truck blow it's horn and stop not even 30cms away from where I was sitting in the taxi!! Oh my goodness...you don't wanna know how many times we almost crashed last night!

Anyway, there's my story of (not one but TWO) crazy taxi rides - who needs the playstation game "Crazy Taxi" when you live in Thailand?!...hahaha!

Swimming!!! And...a day in the life of me.

At the moment I am in Bangkok spending some time with my family and studying Thai (at home, using my parent's module books). The other day my mum had a day off language school - and so us who were home (me, my parents, and Num) decided to go to the pool and hang out together.




In Thailand the pools are so nice and cheap at the same time. So it was nice to go and hang out with the folks while my parents and Num got to know eachother more!

Here is a pic Num and I took yesterday (in a break from me studying Thai and him studying English).......

So an average day in the life of ME at the moment...is 1. learning thai. 2. keeping up with you guys :) and 3. helping where I can, when I can. I am hoping to go with my parents this afternoon to a slum they teach at every Wednesday...they teach kids English at this slum.

Ok that's all for now...more coming later!

Peace out :-)

Newsletter....kind of....

Since creating this blog I've been in the process of trying to get my newsletter on here for you all to download, but so far I haven't been successful!

So when I can, my newsletter for this month will be up. Hopefully it won't be too much longer!

New blog :-)

Hey guys!
Welcome to my new blog...www.karisinthailand.blogspot.com
Watch here for details!! I will post here instead of www.malones.id.au
God bless :-)