Asia . Thailand . Bangkok . Team Canada

February 3rd, 2010 - February 4th, 2010

The trip to Bangkok was pretty straightforward. Our flight was early in the morning so we decided to just stay in the airport. The plan was to find a quiet corner of the airport, create a baggage-nest and sleep until the alarm went off. There were a couple of failures in the plan:

• instead of finding a quiet corner of the airport, we found it's noisy-neighbor the food court (the airport was not 24 hours, but the food court was)
• instead of creating a baggage-nest, we sat in hard-plastic-fast-food chairs (one of the fast-food managers told us it was inappropriate to nest in a food court..)
• instead of sleeping until the alarm went off, we lay our heads on plastic table and waited until the alarm went off

Arrival in Bangkok was easy. Just hopped off the plane and hopped on the shuttle bus to Khao San Rd. Checked into Khao San Palace, which included a rooftop pool, air conditioning, en suite bathroom and television. Not our usual style of accommodation, but "Team Canada" needed an easy place to meet!

Team Canada? Yes, that's right, "Team Canada." A carefully selected group of young Canadians brought together by chance in order to be awesome. Chance? Yes, that's right, "chance." Here's the how the roster was put together.. Tyler has a girlfriend: Jenny. Jenny had a coworker: Brigitte. Brigitte has a sister: Christelle. Christelle has friends: Mel and Milaine. Awesome! Awesome? Yes, that's right, "awesome". Here's some tabular data that describes all our awesome skills:

Name	Drinking Skills	Eating Skills	"eh"-ing Skills 1	Haggling Skills	Nursing Skills	Shopping Skills	"Pep"ing Skills
Dorge, Brigitte	¤¤¤¤¤	¤	¤	¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤	¤¤¤	¤	¤¤¤¤¤
Dorge, Christelle	¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤	¤	¤	¤¤¤	¤¤¤¤¤	¤¤¤	¤¤¤¤¤
Giberson, Jenny	¤¤¤¤¤	¤¤¤	¤¤¤	¤	¤¤¤	¤	¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
Lesage, Mel	¤	¤	¤¤¤¤¤	¤	¤¤¤¤¤	¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤	¤¤¤
Rondeau, Milaine	¤	¤	¤¤¤	¤¤¤	¤¤¤¤¤	¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤	¤¤¤
Speakman, Tyler	¤¤¤	¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤	¤	¤	¤	¤	¤

1 "eh"-ing Skills: ability to use the Canadian word "eh" in a grammatically correct way

EXAMPLES.

"How's it goin', eh? "

"I'm bloated, eh."

"Eh?!"

Curious about what will happen to Team Canada? Wondering about what adventures they'll have? Unsure whether the "nursing" skills will compensate for the "drinking" skills? Tune next time for answers to these questions and more!