- Hey, what's up guys?
My name is Q,
and you've probably seen me in
a couple Buzzfeed videos just laughing,
having a good time, and being really goofy.
But one thing people don't know about me
is that I'm actually very shy.
So growing up, I had two brothers
and we were so closely knit,
they were my best friends and they still are to this day.
When I was growing up,
I didn't really feel the need to get out
and have to meet new friends
and do all this other stuff most people do.
So what I'm gonna do now is challenge myself
to go out of the country
and really get out of my comfort zone.
So it's gonna be seven days.
I set challenges for myself and I have to complete 'em.
(lively music)
- Challenge number one is gonna be that I have to go out
and grab food with somebody.
So challenge number two
was just working out with somebody.
If I'm working out, if I'm being active,
I'm gonna be myself fully.
Number three is to go out on an adventure.
Thailand is full of so many things you can do,
from parties and going out on boats
to going out on an adventure
and really exploring the city with a group of people.
Number four is gonna be doing something
that I've never done before.
But yeah, this is gonna be interesting,
and I'm really excited.
Okay, so the first step I had to do was get home,
pack my stuff, and mentally prepare myself
for this 19 hours worth of traveling I had to do.
So my plan on Thailand was to go to a social hotel
called Lub'd, where I knew I'd be able to meet people,
make friends, and just become more social.
- I'm Luke Andrews, we're here at Lub'd Patong.
So, a social hotel is getting the best parts
of a four star resort
and drop them into essentially what a backpackers is.
A big part of a social hotel obviously is the ability
to have, you know, every traveler
not only come and enjoy the facilities but
come and engage.
The ability to meet someone face-to-face and
actually have a conversation and do something with them
is getting harder and harder and we're getting, you know,
more disconnected, so what we wanted to try and create
with Lub'd was, you know, an environment and an
atmosphere of, you know, everyone's welcome
and everyone leaves as friends.
- So I just got to Lub'd.
Looks like it's a party already going down in here.
(loud music and talking)
(lively music plays)
Alright you guys,
so today is my first official day at Lub'd.
I got in last night around like 7 or 8 o'clock
or something like that.
After a long day of traveling, I was just really tired.
So today, I'm just gonna keep it simple.
Just meet up with some people, have some food.
I think it's pretty simple goal to have.
You know, I'm starving right now so
yeah, let's do it.
Day 1.
(claps)
(orange juice pours)
(fork clatters)
Alright so, a little late for breakfast.
There's not that many people down here.
Some people are like, asleep over here,
looking pretty comfy.
I met some of the guys over there playing pool.
I'll just chill out, do some work,
then after that I'll probably head out.
Do a little something something.
Hopefully I meet a little bit of people later.
Alright, so
update.
It's currently about to be 11 P.M. here in Thailand.
So pretty much after breakfast,
I came up to get in the shower to go back out
and I ended up laying down to take a nap and
about 10, 11, 12 hours later, I'm just not getting up.
But the good thing about Lub'd is that,
even though it's 11 P.M. here,
it's still going down and I still have a really good
chance of meeting some people.
So I'm going out here right now
and see what I can do to try to complete
challenge 1 on day 1.
(woman speaking Spanish)
- [Q] Honestly, I am so glad I decided to come back
downstairs after that long nap.
There was a group from Mexico
enjoying the music, having some food,
and it was really organic.
I didn't have to go out of my way.
I just introduced myself and
(bell dings)
it felt so good to do that.
So day 2, my challenge was to
just meet some people to work out with.
And I knew going into it that it was gonna be super awkward,
but I would've never imagined it was as awkward as it was.
It was definitely a test of how serious I was about
doing this.
- [Q] Hey, man.
You down to do a quick workout?
- What kind of workout?
- [Q] We would do like some running.
We'll do a little bit of boxing.
About an hour and a half.
It'll be nice.
- Okay.
- [Q] You down?
- I'm down.
- [Q] Let's do it.
- [Q] Hey, man.
We're doing a workout.
Do you wanna be a part of it?
- That's nice, but not today for me.
- [Q] No?
Okay.
Yo, guys.
I'm doing a quick little workout.
Would you guys be down to join me?
Muay tai, do a little running, feel a little boxing.
Should be dope.
- Yeah, sure.
- [Q] Let's do it.
So we got a good amount of people to join our workout.
Now it's time to go.
We got like 8 or 9 people.
That was a pretty good turn out so let's do it.
- [Q] The most difficult thing about this challenge
was actually finding the people to come workout with me.
Once we got into the workout,
I was in my comfort zone.
So we started out with a couple of runs,
then we got right into doing some pushups,
and then we got into the Thai boxing.
And it was a lot of moving pieces
that I've never done before,
but it was probably the most fun I had when I was there.
It's intense!
- [Q] I'm not even gonna lie like I was out there struggling
but when it came down to actually boxing
and putting in the work,
I really was out there looking like a mix between
like Floyd Mayweather and probably a little bit of
Conor McGregor.
(Q laughs)
That was intense.
Glad I got some people to come out.
It was a good workout.
It was fun.
Really can't beat that.
- [Q] Yo, thanks for working out, man.
Thanks for working out, dawg.
I really can't say too much about day 2 besides
it was hard work.
Getting people there, it was hard work working out.
But overall, it was all worth it.
(bell dings)
- [Q] Day 2 was complete and I accomplished my goal to
actually have a workout with somebody.
It was very fulfilling to get this done
because it took a lot for me to have to go out and
reach out to people and put myself in a position to, like,
get turned down.
Day 3, I did not have a lot going on,
so I felt like this would be a good time for me to
go on an adventure,
like explore Thailand,
and luckily I met some guys before who were
going on a trip to Phi Phi Island.
Honestly, it was one of the best experiences
I had in my life.
- [Q] I mean, if it was anybody I should ever
meet on this trip, it was these guys.
These guys were so impressive.
I'm talking about multiple language,
very sociable, and just overall great people.
Honestly, if you've never been on a boat trip
in open water with, like, mountains around you,
I promise you, you are missing out on something amazing.
- [Tourist] Water for the juice.
(laughs)
- [Q] The first hour we stopped on had a bunch of
random cats running around.
It was just really random, but it was amazing.
We just got to play with some cats while we ate our food,
so it was really cool.
So what we were doing was stopping on different islands,
seeing different things, and we stay for a little bit,
and then we're out.
So once we left the first island,
we went over to go snorkeling.
Once I realized that swimming in, like, a pool
versus swimming in the ocean was completely different,
I had to hand over the GoPro to my friend.
He took it from there.
So about half way through our snorkeling trip,
it started raining on us so hard.
I'm talking about rain that I've never seen before.
Just as quickly as it started to come down,
it went away and it was beautiful, again.
I would definitely have to say the best part of this trip
was going over to Monkey Island and being able to
actually feed animals.
I'm standing in the middle of the ocean,
reaching up to a mountain, and there's monkeys
coming down trying to grab food at me.
It was really one of the craziest things I've
ever done in my life.
And then another one came up to my friend and
climbed up his shirt to grab the food out of his hand.
It was really crazy and it was just really
amazing to be there.
- So day 4, I wasn't sure what I was gonna be doing but
I just happened to run across the opportunity to
go hang out with a group who was going
to do some, like, surfing.
And that's something I've never done before so I
figured like, 'hey, why not?'
I would just go out here to do it and see what happens.
Honestly, I don't even wanna say too much about this trip.
I just want you guys to see exactly what I was doing and
I'll let you be the judge.
(music plays)
- [Q] So back at Lub'd, I ran into a group of guys
who just wanted to go grab some food.
It just so happened that right up the street
was a spot called Surf House Patong
and it is nuts.
You get up there and you absolutely fail.
It took me about a good, like, 3 to 4 tries
before I really got it.
But as my good friend always says,
'I was failing upward'
and it was failing upward in the best way.
I had Mike.
I had Chris with me.
And we was just having a good time.
So lit!
- [Q] And I would have to say it was 100% the most
exhilarating day of the trip.
Well, I guess I should say it was the most exhilarating
until day 5.
It was almost like heaven sent that I met Matt and Tyler
who were also down here in Thailand, filming.
They were also from Canada, just like Chris and Mike.
It was such a coincidence but when you put yourself
out there to have fun,
these are the type of things that can happen
and it was really just eye-opening to see.
(music plays)