A thai experience!

Its rare that I run home and have to blog but wow, I think this is one of those days that people keep telling me to write down so I can remember it forever. We had another evaluation at school today, a big one, so that my school can be the top school, the royal school or something. I think the whole town showed up. I did my thing and mingled and all, then I went to my classroom after lunch for some "teacher time." I was not there 10 minutes when an important looking man and 3 less important looking men showed up with students. The older, important looking one sat in front of me and said "I want to learn English." I said, okay, because that's what I do and I was trying to be the super sweet foreginer to everyone around. We did our best at chatting then he called one of the other guys over and said "My son wants to learn English too." So, I did my best at an impromptu lesson. Using the thai- english dictionary he told me he was the prime minister. I about fell out of my chair. Then his "son" pointed down the page a bit, he is in fact, the mayor of Latbualuang. One of the other guys is the "sheriff." Cool. He kept talking a bit. Offered to take me to his office and show me around. Cool. Go to his house for dinner, okay. Take me to Pattaya for holiday. What? "My wife no come, she no speak english, hahaha." oh boy. Pattaya is synonomous with everything sleazy about Thailand so I was a bit freaked at this point. I took back dinner "I don't feel good. Mai sabai (sick)". He said, okay, I take you to your appartment. I get there 30 minutes, drive 200 kilometers per hour. Okay... so we still had a few more things to do at school.  He escorted me around and everyone's eyes were bugging out of their heads. I wasn't quite sure what to make of that. My teachers were telling me to go catch my bus, I said the mayor was taking me home. "Go get bus, the bus is here," they said. No, no, I go with him. I didn't qutie get it. Then he beckoned for me and I walked though the line of teachers with mixed looks of pity, fear, and questioning. Great. However, I am escorted to potentially the sickest car I've ever ridden in. A big fat BMW with every bell and wistle you can imagine. And the 3 dudes in the back seat. As we drive through town at between 20 and 100 km per hour he didn't talk much because he was busy answering his 3 cell phones. twice he stopped in the middle of the road and made the 3 guys get out so he could answer. my mind is really working at this point. he told me he makes 30 million baht per year, which works out to about 1 million dollars. As the mayor of a nothing town in no where thailand??? right. so he cruises through town and to my neighborhood, answering all 3 of his phones as we go, then tells me I must eat food before I take medicine. okay. the 5 of us roll into a resturant, grab a table for 10 and he tells me "you order all you want, I pay." so I ordered. then he got up to take a phone call, the 3 guys look at each other and the "son" jumps up and follows. I'm left with the "sheriff" and friend. the food comes, and no one eats, but they fill my plate. my experience in thailand is you eat when the food comes, no questions so when they weren't eating i was even more freaked. after about 10 minutes mayor and son come back. everyone eats and the food keeps coming. at least 10 different dishes. eventually he says "haha, I said son, I mean bodyguard. theyare my bodyguard" and makes a gun gesture. great, but it does clear up some mystery. we proceed to eat and chat, me giving english lessons the whole time. then he's asking me if I know khao san rd. yes. you like? yes, very much. he tells me that last week they went to khao san. next time I come and dance. riiiigghtttt. anyway, it was very strange and I think that this is the whole "all the important people are actually mafia" thing I've been hearing about. it was interesting to say the least. I now have "anything I want any time, you just call" as an option so great. it ended with him taking me home, the bodyguards carrying my backpack and walking me to my door and "see you tomorrow." we'll see what tomorrow brings.
*Love*