Our new home and Bangkok belly ;-)

For those of you who don't know what Bangkok belly is, your very lucky, as it left me (Stephen) bed ridden and with a permanent tie to the toilet...so that was my first day in Khon Kaen.
However, Kristine got a tour of the University grounds from the daughter of the owner of the apartments Izumi  and came back filled with great stories of our new surroundings, which she explained to me through the bathroom door. "Good to know", I replied: "Now please blare some music, this next part is gonna get ugly." ;-)



She described the area and all the amenities on offer including:

• football field,
• basket ball, 
• gymnasium,
• out door gym equipment and 
• running track around a beautiful lake
• and much more

It also has a lot of shops, markets and student bars mostly with live music.
"We were sold!" and once my ailment had cleared, I too was ready to explore.

The red rocket 2

We met our new neighbor and as it turns out, fellow class mate, a nice guy from Washington DC who gave us the run down and the best places to eat and visit. So after getting our new mode of transport we had our newly formed bike gang and were ready to venture into the city and explore the campus in it's entirety.

So in the first week we have tried to go jogging every night and are hopefully starting Muay Thai soon.
This time next year it will be me and Conor Mcgregor showing the UFC how its done :-)

Next week, after a stressful week of studying, :) we will try and treat ourselves to a trip to the national park and big Buddha on the mountain, so we will keep you posted...