My Journal - Aug 28, 1993

August 28, 1993

This is my first weekend with my Thai family. Last night a family down the road had a party. Everyone in the village was there. They had a live band, and they weren’t bad. They got Paul on stage and he sang “Cotton Fields”, it was pretty humorous. He is a great sport and his voice isn’t too bad. Later on Lisa, Brigid and I got up on stage to sing “My Girl”, but the band didn’t know it, so we did it a Capello! What a riot. The three of us started dancing and within two songs, everyone was dancing. The party was a Buddhist blessing festival for their new house.

I am out on the balcony in Moo 6, and there are two outrageous storms, one on each side. The lightning is incredible. The rain here is not bad at all because it is so hot. I think this is the rainy season!

My family took me by tio today. First we went to the ruins across from the Queens house, so beautiful. The Queen goes there once a month and has a beautiful house just across the river.

Next we went to Kuhn May’s Wat it is the same one we went to for the Buddhist Lent. We walked all around and she told everyone who I was. Then we walked over to the “talad” market, near Sala Pracha Comb I got some post cards and had been looking at a t-shirt, I wanted one with the elephant applique on the front with beading. The shop lady told May it was mai geng, I guess it wasn’t made well. When we were at the postcards, May told the shopkeeper I was looking for a geng shirt. He said 80 baht, I didn’t understand, until she told me they are usually 120 baht. I guess it is pretty cool hanging out with the Governors wife. At the ruins the sign would say “Please Buy tickets” and would go to pay, they would take her money, then she would smile at me and say “Free for you” it sounded like “fee fo you”.

Katay and Jom came over for a while today and we played badminton. That was fun!

Last night when I left the party, Kuhn Pa stayed until about 11pm, May and I watched a Thai Soap Opera. It wasn’t the same one we have been watching all week, but it wasn’t bad. I hope it is helping my Thai, I can follow the story well enough to understand some of the words and the commercials are easy.

Kuhn May just brought me some coffee ice cream and orange soda. Plus, by the TV there are cookies and bananas. I’m lucky. I can hear them laughing about how much I eat, but they are always feeding me! Everything tastes so good.

A little gecko just stuck his head out and looked at me and darted away, lickety split.