My Life in Thailand Part 2

[highlight=transparent]I caught a minibus to Pattaya with some other travellers, everyone in the bus apart from me had been to Pattaya before, they started to tell me stories about what to expect and I was pretty sure from what they told me that I wouldn’t stay there very long 555[/highlight] [highlight=transparent] Looking back you have to laugh but the minibus driver dropped me off on beach road at the bottom of Soi 6. As I got out of the minibus a young English lad approached me and ask if I was looking for a place to stay. He pointed up Soi 6 and said there was a dive shop half way up and a guy in there could help me find somewhere. Imagine me, landing in Pattaya for the first time, alone, 24 years old, back in 2004, white, with my golf clubs walking up Soi 6!![/highlight] [highlight=transparent]Safe to say I never stopped half way up to check in on the dive shop, I was walking so fast I would have missed it anyhow. By the time a reached what I now know as second road I felt violated. Every part of my body had been grabbed, pretty sure I’d been pick pocketed and had red lipstick all over my face.[/highlight] [highlight=transparent]I found a place stay shortly after that, right next to a golf driving range and spent the next few months playing golf and practicing at the range. By the time I was due to go home I had really fallen in love with Thailand and I didn’t want to leave. I didn’t have much money left so reluctantly I boarded a plane back to the UK.[/highlight] [highlight=transparent]I spent the next few months trying everything I could to get back to Thailand and stay there, that meant primarily looking for a job which was tough to do sat in England with only really email to communicate with anyone in Thailand. Golf courses were my first port of call but didn’t even get a single reply. I then turned to golf driving ranges but not much luck there either. The friends that I met while there for 2 months had told me that if I was serious about staying in Thailand and finding a job then I really needed to be in the country. Not many employers would offer a job to anyone who was out of Thailand. So I sold my only asset at that time which was a red Peugeot 206 and used that money to fly to Thailand in search of a job.[/highlight]