As I mentioned the water from the nearby river has been steadily rising. The reason is that there was a typhoon up north in China very recently and so in order to prevent major flooding (as there was a few years ago in Thailand) they are opening up certain dams to send water in different directions. True to form, this affects us directly.
This is the exact place where the prayer ceremony took place just 24 hours earlier. Our amazing Thai crew put up scaffolding all around the house but we are still walking through the mud when we step in and out of the house.
Thai custom dictates that people never wear shoes inside. This is hard to get used to! It also means no shoes on set! Can you imagine trying to step onto an American film set with no shoes on?! I don't even like it when crew wears open toed shoes or sandals! So this morning we all took off our shoes and placed them outside the house downstairs, and by lunch many of the shoes had washed away.
This is a mangosteen.
And when I say Mangosteen, what I really mean is the most delicious fruit of all time and a little piece of heaven in your hand.
The phone that the production provided us with has a service called "Happy" that sends us all multiple text messages per day. We have no idea what they say but we are always happy to hear from Happy.
Another unusual thing about Thai productions is that they send in a medical team to examine all foreigners (those of us getting work permits) - they take our blood pressure, temperature and even our blood. Our director thinks we're secretly prepping to take his kidney.
This is the archery range at the Pines. I intend to make use of the cool facilities (badmitton, tennis, bike riding, archery, swimming pool, fitness center, ziplines, etc.) while I'm hear, though one can only dream about having the time for this stuff while shooting a film.
The walkie talkies in Thailand are different! We go to Channel 55!
The flood notwithstanding, we had a good first day. There is a political campaign that comes down the river and plays really loud music and gives really loud speeches every afternoon, so that definitely interfered with our sound, so we'll see how it affects the shoot in the long run. I'm all for freedom of speech but can ya keep it down?!?
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