This morning Misty and I took a songtheaw to work. There was a Thai woman on there who was clearly talking to her friends about us. It was strange as we could pick up on some of the words. After we got off the songtheaw she waved to us…we couldn’t believe it.
I taught my adult class this morning and spent over 20 minutes trying to explain what a con man was and what a scam was. I gave examples of situations that happened to us in Thailand, yet they still do not understand what I was trying to explain. The word was not in the dictionary, and even after 20 minutes they still had a blank look on their face. I started to make a list of all of the words that I spend more than 20 minutes trying to explain.
One of my students in my accounting class gave me a ring she made. It is quite nice. All of the girls were fascinated with how it looked on my “white skin.”
We went to the AIDS hospice after we were done teaching. Bua was telling everyone that my mom and Misty’s mom were coming tomorrow. I explained that it was only her mom and sister and not my family. They were all sad. Uma told me that if I ate one of his bananas I would be happy again. So I ate it and pretended that it worked. He held out his hand for the peel back and then was so excited that I nearly touched him to give him back the peel.
We went to Soi 38 for supper. Everyone laughed when I arrived as I looked through the menu as if I was never there before, but then went on to order the exact same thing I order every time.
On the walk home from Soi 38 there was a man with a motorbike and a wagon in front. He was collecting garbage to sell. We walked past him but later he caught up and asked us if we wanted to ride in the front of his cart to our house. We were about 2 feet from home, but it would have been a good time. I laugh just thinking about us sitting in the front of his cart with all of his garbage. I bet that would be the talk of the neighborhood.
In the evening Misty and I accompanied one of our coworkers and his friend to the Telephone Karaoke Bar on Silom. In total we belted out over 30 tunes including:
I Want It That Way
Dancing Queen
YMCA
How Do I Live Without You
It’s Raining Men
Seasons in the Sun
You’re Beautiful
Because You Loved Me
Don’t Cha (which we had a sing off for)
All of us were completely sober, but I don’t think you would know it. I should also mention that this was a gay bar on a gay street. It was a riot.
We left the bar around 11:30pm and watched a free Lady-boy show on the street. I took tons of pictures but do not have them on my computer right now to show you.
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It sounds like you had an amazing experience out in thailand, I'm planning to go soon as I am a member of a dance group about to go on tour over there. I'm also hoping to do a bit of karaoke while i'm travelling, we're touring asia and are also visiting japan, we have even invested in our troops karaoke player are there any important local songs i should know or traditional songs? Are there any popular english artists that they would appreciate? Would you visit again? and what was your favourite memory of your trip?
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