Waiting to be collected to get the 8am Saturday bus to Chiang Mai.... waiting..... waiting.... (reminds me of a song we know!). A confusion between Burmese, Thai and English language meant our driver went to the wrong place to collect us. He arrived with the teachers and our friend at 3 mins to 8! We raced to the bus station, only to see the bus going down the other carriageway. We chased the bus but it vanished by the time we had turned round so we went to the bus station on the way out of town. No bus.
By this time we were saying, 'Don't worry, today is not the day to leave Mae Sot. We must stay and there will be a good reason.' Our friend was distraught. He felt he had let us down but we were actually really happy not to be leaving. So we drove back into town ....
.... and the Chiang Mai bus went racing past us again! We don't know where it had gone inbetween, probably a detour into town but by this time, we had decided to stay....
.. and we had the most magical day.... Why? What was the reason we stayed? Watch this space... we will tell you when/if we get to Chiang Mai....!
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You good create a song from this to the tune of The Wheels on the Bus...
Verse 1:
The Chaing Mai bus goes whizzing pass, whizzing pass
Verse 2:
Sheila and Geoff shouts " Stop that bus, stop that bus etc..'
Verse 3:
The bus left without us today, without us today...
So why did you stay???
R & M
xxx
Very good, you two but I prefer Forthview's P1 version for Rosa Parks - The driver on the bus said get to the back....!
Even today getting to the bus was an adventure but check out next posting for why we stayed.
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