So how rich are the kids running around the campus at Assumption University of Thailand? Well, this is how rich they are: Yesterday and Monday, BMW had a booth set up on campus so that students could test drive the newest models of their cars. Keep in mind that this campus is out in the boonies and is completely cut off from the poor people living in their huts of corrugated tin surrounding it, and there are no parents at all there. BMW was targeting the students directly. On the campuses which I've been fortunate enough to attend back in the US, GM would occasionally hand out flyers with some sort of deal to buy a new car after graduation, but there definitely weren't test drive booths set up and it definitely wasn't BMW. Stinkin' rich indeed...
In other news, I have twelve days in a row off starting one week from today. I'm heading north, first to Kanchanaburi, where I will see some tigers, smugglers from Burma, and the infamous death railway of WWII where the Japanese military worked thousands of Thais, Aussies, British, and American troops to their deaths and immortalized in the old move "The Bridge over the River Kwai." I also hope to make it to the fabled Three Pagodas Pass in that province. Then I hope to head to Tak province, to see some waterfalls and mountains.
Hail progress!
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so... did you testdrive a BMW? Because that would have been sweet.
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