Sawasdee Ka!
Hope y’all are enjoying the 2 degree weather at home- we’re suffering a chilly 81 degrees today. Hehe.
We’re nearing the end of our third week here at AIT (my fourth week in Thailand), and I would like to update everyone on some of the things I have learned to appreciate… fiercely.
1. Bathrooms with toilet paper. Or soap. Or paper towel. Really, a bathroom with any of the three is a good find. A bathroom with all three is a treasure.
2. Massages. Nuff said.
3. Listening to someone outside of our group speak American English. Ahhhhh.
4. Real orange juice, not Thailand’s OJ, which is a cheap imitation of Tang.
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| 5. Flesh Gecko |
6. A filling meal. Thai food is superb but doesn’t keep us full for very long. A filling meal is awesome. Like a Mike Jones burger.
7. FDA food regulations.
I’ll keep you updated- there’s certainly more to come.
On Monday we sadly trudged back to class after a fun weekend @ Cha Am. We were allowed to skip Thai Survival class in the evening, and instead we went to Dr. Soparth’s husband’s funeral. We took a bus and hour and a half west and found ourselves in this temple-type thing. The inside looked like a really awesomely decorated garage or unfinished basement. The funeral was a very…surreal experience. It was the last day of the seven-day event, and it was weird to see no one crying. Like, nobody cried. Hm.
We ate dinner outside and were served family style a bunch of dishes made form Dr. Soparth’s family cookbook. Muy Rico. Freaky part: thought I was eating fried pieces of fish- was actually snacking on whole guppies. Looked down and saw their little eyeballs looking at me. Didn’t like that very much.
Went inside, waited for about an hour, and then listened to about an hour of chanting. Chanting in a different language + hot temp = a very sweaty and confusing two hours. Post-service, we got to ride back to AIT in this tricked-out double decker party bus. It was sweet. Will have to take a pic of one of those- we need them in EL. I'll alert Shaggin Wagon management.
Yesterday was pretty typical- in the afternoon we had a loco professor who located Sarah and Torey and me and forced fed us ice cream and a cake thing with fake strawberry filling and a lump of purple play doh bread. He showed us all of his pictures, including pics of him donating blood, and had the sandwich lady take a pic of us. Goober.
After Thai class, our teacher, Pi Pi (who is also the English teacher for the kindergarten class- shoot) took us out to dinner. We had chicken liver.
Afterwards we threw our hands up and succumbed to the desire to hit BKK on a Tuesday night. Went back to our favorite- Khaosan Road- and had a ton of fun. Nothing like some Pad Thai and spring rolls off of the street. Roamed the street for a couple hours occasionally stopping to jam to Lady or Taio Cruz or KPerry. We met some guys from British Columbia and some guys from WINDSOR! Felt like home.
Had a very successful cab drive back and crashed immediately.
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| Chan Chop BKK! |
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| Beautiful People |
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| Typical Thailand- "We Do Not Check ID Card" |
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| FARANG haven |
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| Fourth meal. And Fifth meal. |
Now I’m sitting in our classroom watching about 20 Thai maintenance guys attempt to put up a new white board. Keep it up, MacGyvers.
Just got off the phone with Anna (love that she’s on an earlier time than Michigan) and had a great conversation. Love my sisters. Apparently she’s been telling all of her 3rd grade kiddos about my adventures here, and she has already signed me up to come talk to class J
She said they like gross things.
Oh honey, I have plenty of gross things. Maybe I’ll just have to bring a flesh gecko home.
Love to America (and be thankful for your bathroom),Rosie
2 comments:
Ro - you know Anna would try to throw the flesh gecko in a blender. That's about how much love she has for those little guys.
Pork leg sounds interesting... Don't know if I would have shared your enthusiasm.
love.
the kiddies are waiting for you.. i think in their minds they think you are coming like next week.
Love you!
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