Bad (but hilarious) day

Today was the first really hard day. First off, we had to wake up at 4am for our flight to Phuket. Did I mention that my birthday was yesterday?!?! Thanks to my dear friends I was the most hung over I've ever been in my life. I really, really don't recommend taking a thai taxi while nauseous. It's 100% miraclele that I didn't throw up. So anyway, we arrived at our Phuket hotel that was arranged for us by TEFL International around 10am. oh dear 6 pound/eight ounce baby jesus..... I didn't think I was a prood but apparently I totally am. There were bugs EVERYWHERE. Our shower was a hose that literally just trickled. We did have "air conditioning" but it broke the second time we turned it on. Anyways, LONG story short, we totally left and found a nice hotel. One room at the fancy place we found cost the same as two rooms as the bug place so we decided to just share one room with two TWIN beds. I guess we're about to become REALLY good friends!!! So later in the afternoon we went exploring and ran into another guy taking the TEFL course - Mike. He's from Florida but he still seems pretty chill. He took us to a place that rents nice motorbikes for 3000 baht ($85. usd) per month. Brandon and Josh were so excited and they both paid the money and jumped on bikes right away. I was totally freaked out - Brandon kept telling me I was acting like his mom cuz I thought this was a bad idea. Thai people are f'ing CRAZY drivers and I couldn't imagin being on a tiny bike going 50mph, on the wrong side of the road with all those ten year old (literally) drivers. Nelly and I told the guys to go practice with the bikes and get used to driving on the left-side before we got on the back. As soon as Brandon took off he imediately started driving down the right side of the road and we had to scream after him - "LEFT SIDE!!!" Meanwhile, Josh took off and after eight feet he ran straight into a metal gate and dumped the bike on top of himself. Oh my god. So, long story short, Josh has a huge, deep scrape on this knee and his toe and then some other smaller scrapes on his hands and arm. Brandon had to STEAL some bandages from a hospital while Josh was driven home by Mike. Then on the LONG walk home I got eight ENOURMOUS mosquito bites. It was such a shitty day.

This looked much worse in real life...


Am I going to be scared for life?!?!? Even though I use every drop of will power that I have to stop from scratching my legs during the day, I still wake up scrathing in the middle of the night...