We started our classes on Monday at Loi Kroh, a Thai massage school here in Chiang Mai. At this school we have one instructor for every 2 students so it's a pretty great learning environment. This week I've been working with Avery and ew have a teacher named Nanpa. Unfortuneatly, Avery was up all night on Sunday being sick (one of the risks of eating in Asia) so I actually had a private lesson on Monday. It was definitely a great experience having an instructor all to myself, but I got worked over by this woman in more ways than one.
First of all, never let the size of a person deceive you. Nanpa is maybe 4'10" and fairly slight. But I'm failry certain she could make a grown man cry if she wanted to...she wouldn't, but she could. So out whole day was Nanpa working on me to show me everything and then me working on Nanpa to practice. End result: I have bruises on my legs from the deep work and my thighs and ass were burning at the end of the day from squating in one form or another for about 5 hours. Oh, and my brain was completely fried. It was an awesome day!
After Monday and writing my emails I swung by the peppermint for some food and low and behold, there on the menu was a cheeseburger. If you don't know this already, I love cheeseburgers and miss them with a large amount of passion. I was feeling a little out of sorts but I ordered it anyway and it was delicious. Thai people can make a cheeseburger. After dinner I went home and to bed pretty early.
The next day I woke up with a stomach bug-probably some form of food poisoning. I didn't want to miss a day of class so I got ready and went anyway. Fortuneately Avery was back and feeling better so I could watch and learn a bit and didn't have to practice too much. In the end the bug got the best of me and I left around 4 and went straight to bed until this morning. I'm still feeling a little icky, but much much better. I was able to practice today with no problem, just some stomach pain. After class today I went and got an acupuncture treatment fromthe sweetest woman I've ever met. I'm feeling a lot better and she gave me some herbs to take for the next couple of days.
All in all, I've had a pretty well rounded experience here already, the good and the bad. I guess it's good not to leave anything out when visiting a new country...at least that's what I'm telling myself:)
Hope everyone is doing great!
Sawat dee ka
Andrea
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