Day 1, or 2? (... jet lag is really muddling things up)

I'm sitting underneath a wall-mounted air conditioner and a fan at full power... I'm still a little hot. I figured that a cold shower would be the best way to beat the heat, but then realized I had no shampoo, conditioner, or soap. So- step 1: get bathing materials. Since this was my first day wandering the streets I figured it would take me a good chunk of time to find a store that sold such materials. Well, that was definitely not the hard part. My difficulty lie in figuring out which bottles were shampoo and which were conditioner. None of the people in the store spoke much English, so I ended up walking away with 2 bottles that looked somewhat promising. By the time I got to my room, one bottle had black shampoo, the other white conditioner. Needless to say, I'm a little apprehensive about putting sparkly black stuff in my hair, but I guess that's what an adventure is all about, right?

Due to the intensity of the black in the shampoo, I decided I would go back on the streets and do something else to get my mind off what lay waiting for me in the shower. Luckily enough, a huge market is located one street away, so I got to walk along and soak up some daily life. There were numerous fruit, meat, fish, and clothing shops. There were some really cool-looking fish by the side of the road and I really wanted to get that point across. So I went up to some ancient woman and pointed to this rainbow fish with a giant head. "Rat Dep!" (Very beautiful). Needless to say she looked at me like I was some crazy foreigner which, I guess, I am. After hightailing it down the road, I decided to buy some flowers for the woman who runs to guesthouse, I figured it would be a nice gesture and well, it cost me something like 15 cents. I got back to my guest house and decided to start this blog rather than use the jet black shampoo... but I have forestalled long enough and I think it's time to get my feet wet (couldn't resist a good pun)