Day 14 The drama continues 1/14/14

Today at school Jeff's drama continued. This time his story wasn't about his water heater, although he somehow found a way to blame it on that. He said that he checked his bank account and saw that he lost 20,000 baht. We asked him questions about it, trying to help him figure out how the incident could have occurred. He was frustrated and didn't want to talk about it, so he left class early to talk to the bank. When we returned from our lunch break I was surprised to see that Jeff was back in class. We asked him what he was able to find out from the bank, and he said all they could tell him was that a 20,000 baht charge from "Violin" was made on Wednesday night.They told him that he could make a police report and check on the status of his report in the meantime. When Moz heard this piece of information he researched violin, and saw that there were numerous reports on the thaivisa.org site about other tourists having a similar thing happen to them. Jeff says that the card was still in his possession, which indicates that he went there for drinks and paid with his card, and was then severely over charged. According to the reports, many people also contested that they had been overcharged on their cards. Jeff claims that he was too drunk and doesn't remember any of it. To no surprise he blamed being blacked out, as a result to his anger from the water heater incident. I have to admit it would suck getting 20,000 baht stolen, but a part of me thought; karma. The rest of the class period flew by. After our final lesson on  how to present vocabulary,we were dismissed from class. After class Ryan and I went back to our apartment to chill for a bit. While we were chilling we heard Nick's voice outside the door, so we opened our door to find him moving in to the apartment two doors down. We had a new neighbor. We were happy that he moved in. We jokingly told him not to tell Jeff where we lived. Later Ryan and I went to the Soja bar where I ordered my favorite kiwi smoothie, and Ryan got green curry. We stayed and chatted until the sun went down. From here we went back to our apartment where we spent our time reading and researching meditation retreats. The meditation retreat we found was a ten day retreat with strict rules of no eating after 12pm, no holding hands or touching anyone, no talking for most of the day, and no use of technology. We emailed the retreat asking if there was an opening for us after our class was up. The ten day retreat sounded like an extreme challenge, but was definitely something that we both wanted to try. After our research we ended the night with watching the hunger games.