My Birthday and Journey to Bangkok

Saturday 19th May: Volunteering Day II

This was actually quite a boring day because it was basically the same as before, more volunteering. So read on for a slightly more exciting day. I have only included this day for consistency.

Sunday 20th May: The 20th Anniversary of My Birth & The Bus to Bangkok

The day actually started a day the day before because the night before my friend’s kept me awake to Midnight just so that they could present a cake they bought for me and sing Happy Birthday to me. This was all very nice except after two days of manual labour we were all very tired.
My birthday proper wasn’t a day that I was looking forward to because it was the day that we were going to be taking a 14hour bus ride from Khao Lak to Thailand’s capital, Bangkok. The bus was leaving the TVC at 9AM and I cannot say that I was that upset to leave the TVC because it had been a couple of days of really hard work. The bus was very slow but it meant that we had plenty of time to watch DVDs. My 20th Birthday ranks as the day when I watched more films on a single day than ever before.

• Adrift – even worse than it appeared on the trailer.



• 300 – actually quite good



• Employee of the Month – ok, a reasonable comedy



• Mr. Bean’s Holiday – seen it before



• Little Miss Sunshine – very good



• Kill Bill – quite a good film



• The Beach – we were in Thailand after all.

All of these films made the coach ride a lot more bearable than it might have been and it made the journey seem a lot quicker than 14hours.

We eventually reached Bangkok at about 11PM and found our way to the hotel. Once we arrived at the hotel (which is very nice), the lecturer’s had another birthday surprise for me because they too had bought me a birthday cake. This one was a very posh, chocolate one from a very nice hotel. However, by this time we were all so tired that I decided that we didn’t have the energy to eat the cake so we saved it to the next day.

All the photos from Khao Lak including the journey to Bangkok are now available here.

Keep on checking back for updates to Bangkok.