I'm so loving it here

Chaing Mai is so super!!! I am staying at a friendly family run guesthouse on a quite sub soi(side street) that is right across from the center of town where an amazing Sunday market is held...Next door is Tawan guesthouse run by the sweetest lady Mai...She has an inexpensive resturant and cooking school also books tours around the area and transport back to Bangkok...across the street is yoga center with a daily class for 100B...There is an amazing juice bar with wheatgrass and veggie sandwiches...You can get your teeth cleaned for 500B thats like $15...there are even places to get colonics for $40 which I may need after all the crazy street food I've been eating...I bought a knife today and a bunch of different fruit that I've never had before...also found contact lenses that I could get without script but they only had colored...so this week I'm hazel next week I'm voilet eyes...and I'm smiling from ear to ear...I also found an aromatherapy shop with all the items made locally in Chaing Mai...mmmmm the essential oils made from thai flowers that I have never smelt before are soooooo lovely!!!
When I first arrived I immediately grouped up with 3 other peeps and we spent our first day in Chaing Mai but they left for a trek while I stayed behind to figure out my school and vipassana ting...seems like I can't get my deposit back so I will be taking the reflexology class with that money...that's cool I'm sure learning to give a two hour foot massage should come in handy some day...anyway I like traveling solo so I don't always have to follow the group but meeting up with this caste of charachters has been a blast so far...there is Jaqui-fiesty punk rocker from Manchester...raised on the Clash she got to see Joe Strummer and the Mescalaros twice three months before he passed...she owns her own Victorian house in Manchester and yes your girl is going to visit her next year...and perhaps I will go to Amsterdam and visit our other companion Arnold...a half Dutch half Indonesian lad with green eyes...he is having the time of his life right now so he may still be in Thailand when I head to Europe...and then there is Tony- at least that is what we call him after 20 minutes of trying to pronounce his real name....he's Bulgarian and talks about snakes and hookers...two things in Thailand that both scare and intrigue him...but our guesthouse clearly states...NO BOYGIRL ALLOWED UPSTAIRS...so that's my movie right now...wish I had more pix but I'm still just taking it in and haven't really stopped to take photos yet but I've got a month to do all that...cheers!!!