New Apartment!

After three long months of harassing the owner with weekly phone calls and the occasional threat, I finally moved into a Mae Sot version of my dream apartment. Above a sushi restaurant and across the street from the banana lady, Tesco supermarket and the most obnoxious karaoke bar known to man, my little studio is exactly what I want (fine, so I could do without the karaoke bar - waking up to drunk Thai guys screeching "Total Eclipse of the Heart" at 1am... nightly... got a little old after Night Two). I have a great view of Mae Sot, and the mountains in the distance on a clear day. It is so great to have space and a place of my own and... a wok. Mae Sot is finally starting to feel like home...

My first dinner partyI am now the proud owner of a wok

Bedroom/living room/dining room
Complete with hot water AND a sink that doesn't empty on my feet (!)
My treacherous staircase (and, for the first week, I did it with a BIKE. Seriously, the fact that I am still alive is quite remarkable)