frustrations

as much as i love thailand. it makes me sick. - i get sick all of the time. i am still sick, for almost 3 weeks ive had a fever, sore throat, cough, body aches, etc. and this weekend i spent the whole time in bed- sleeping. i wanted to go to the big market in bangkok but i couldnt. well first i was waiting for them to install the hot water- which i guess they are doing right now. but then i ate some food from a restaurant that made me feel really sick so i went to bed and couldnt get out of bed in the morning because i felt so nauseous. i finally got out of bed and felt horrible, so i decided to go to the doctor again. they said i just had tonsilitis and gave me more antibiotics. hopefully that will work now. but then i got home and threw up. too much info i know, but yuck. so i still feel that way today. the food that one day just made me sick i guess.

i didnt want to go to school today but i made it here and made it through the day even with a 100.2 degree fever.

ive been told by the school and pat that i have to go to laos on december 27th and then stay there until the 3rd or the 4th and then come back to thailand so that i can stay in the country until april 16th when my plane flies out. that means i have to spend new years alone, in a different country while the other english teacher friends are partying at the island.

the school decided not to give me the working visa cuz they said it was too much paperwork, so now i have to do border/visa runs every 30 days, which gets really expensive. all of my border runs will have cost me over 300 dollars- which is a lot. when a working visa would only cost 90 dollars. so it is 300 dollars plus a pain in the butt cuz i have to leave the country and come back all of the time, and do things like miss new years and have to be alone. sad. :( and with the working visa i would have health insurance-which i was promised- now i dont have that, but it sure would be nice as each doctors visit has been 1,000 baht.

i wish that they would follow through with everything they were supposed to do. but this is thailand i guess. and mai ben rai everything. im a farang, im white, that means i am rich and have ample money to spare. right?