Rain, rain, rain
We woke up this morning (and several times last night) to the sounds of a fierce rainstorm. Apparently, it's the aftereffects of some tropical storm. But it sure poured, and the wind was crazy!! It was definitely the worst storm we've had since we've been here. This morning as we left for school, it was still raining, and most of the streets in our mubaan (neighborhood) had several inches of standing water. It was a rather soggy commute to school.
In other news, my parents actually bought plane tickets to come out to Thailand!!!! Hooray!!! It only took us four months to talk them into it. They'll be coming out at the end of January. Hopefully my Thai will be significantly improved by then and I'll be able to get us around with no problems. It's definitely getting better-today a man came to the CSD office to drop off a delivery. He had been told to speak with either Jit (the Thai girl who works with us) or Sam, but neither of them were here. He asked me (in Thai, of course) where the Thai girl was who works there, and I told him I didn't know. I asked if he needed me to sign, and he didn't really answer. So I told him that we could go upstairs and there was someone who spoke both Thai and English. We went upstairs and Khun Note (the girl who works in the office and speaks great English) said, "Kim, you are studying Thai!" As if I should already be fluent after six weeks here. :) Anyway, it turned out that he didn't want me to sign because he had been told to talk to Sam or Jit, but once Note vouched that I actually work here, everything was fine. Then we had a nice brief chat about how I've been here for a month, I'm from Chicago, I'm teaching, and how he went to Texas once. All of this was in very broken Thai, of course, but we were able to communicate, which was exciting! I really think that by the time January rolls around, I'll have a decent grasp of the language, or at least what I need to know.
In other news, my parents actually bought plane tickets to come out to Thailand!!!! Hooray!!! It only took us four months to talk them into it. They'll be coming out at the end of January. Hopefully my Thai will be significantly improved by then and I'll be able to get us around with no problems. It's definitely getting better-today a man came to the CSD office to drop off a delivery. He had been told to speak with either Jit (the Thai girl who works with us) or Sam, but neither of them were here. He asked me (in Thai, of course) where the Thai girl was who works there, and I told him I didn't know. I asked if he needed me to sign, and he didn't really answer. So I told him that we could go upstairs and there was someone who spoke both Thai and English. We went upstairs and Khun Note (the girl who works in the office and speaks great English) said, "Kim, you are studying Thai!" As if I should already be fluent after six weeks here. :) Anyway, it turned out that he didn't want me to sign because he had been told to talk to Sam or Jit, but once Note vouched that I actually work here, everything was fine. Then we had a nice brief chat about how I've been here for a month, I'm from Chicago, I'm teaching, and how he went to Texas once. All of this was in very broken Thai, of course, but we were able to communicate, which was exciting! I really think that by the time January rolls around, I'll have a decent grasp of the language, or at least what I need to know.
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Comment by Tifany — July 5, 2006 @ 12:09 — Reply