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Date Posted: 20:21:21 03/07/03 Fri
Author: Sir Nomalot
Subject: Cooking and Boxing (but not at the same time!)

Sorry we've taking so long to write, Sarah and I have been busy bees! Sarah is going to post a message about our jungle trek, and I have elected to talk about our day yesterday!

Yesterday was one of our more pricey days, but also one of the most fun! We spent from 9:30am-4pm learning how to cook... Thai style! You are all in for a treat when we come back to Canada! ;)

The course started out with a market tour, where she explained all the different thai vegetables to us. She also pointed out some other interesting items for purchase. For example, you can buy red ant eggs! These you can recognize by their small shape, and also by the fact that there are red ants climbing all over the place in the bowl :P

We made 7 dishes in all: 6 main courses and one dessert. They were as follows:

* A curry dish: Sarah made Green Curry with Tofu, and I
made Massaman curry with potato, tomato,
and chicken
* Chicken(or tofu) fried with cashews and veggies- this was
GOOD!
* Pad Thai
* Yummy coconut milk soup
* Chicken(or tofu) satee with peanut sauce for dipping
* Veggie spring rolls
* Deep fried bananas (made with coconut milk)

All our food turned delicious, but it was certainly a challenge to eat that much in one sitting! I'm definately going to try out some of those recipes when we get home. :)

After we came home from our day of cooking, Sarah and I had a quick nap, and then trotted off the the Muai Thai boxing match... it was awsome!! (Jeff, I kept wishing you could have been there, you would have loved it!)

An interesting thing about Thai boxing, is that there is live music played throughout every match. Each fight starts off with a ritual. The fighters bow to their own corner, and then walk around the ring, bowing to each corner. Then they proceed to do a little dance in the center of the ring. Some fighters dance for longer than others, but most of then do at least something. The fighters then meet in the center of the ring with the ref, where they bow to eachother.

After bowing to eachother, the fighters each go off to their own little corner where they say a little buddhist prayer of some sort with their coach.

Once the fighting starts, it's 5 3-minute rounds. (which speaking from my limited experience in the ring, has got to be TIRING!). They fight using their feet, knees, hands, and elbows. Knees seem to be the weapon of choice. Very often the two fighters would get their arms all locked up together, and just proceed to knee eachother in the stomach. The throngs of locals love it when this happen and cheer like crazy every time a knee hits. (the locals by the way, were waving their hands around and better the entire time, it was quite fun to watch!) When the fighters are in their guarding stance sizing eachother up, it looks almost like a dance... they do it in time to the music, it's so cool.

The last fight of the night was supposed to be a huge match that was all hyped up... and it lasted all of about 15 seconds, ended by a swift knockout kick to the head.

Watching the Thai boxing last night really helped to show the Thai philosophy of keeping a "cool heart". Every time the other fighter scored a good hit, the other fighter would nod in recognition, or sometimes even smile. Even when somebody was getting a knee repeatedly in the stomach, if you saw his face he looked completely calm. There didn't display any anger, irritation, or even pain. They really seemed to have an amazing attitude about it. Also, I didn't get any of the "I'm so macho" kind of vibes that I tend to see at these events at home.

All in all, I was *thouroughly* impressed by the sport! I would love to watch it again :) It's also inspired me to take up martial arts again when I get home!

That's all for yesterday. As for today, we're probably going for massages in a bit, and then we'll see what the day brings :)

Love love love!

From Nome Nome

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