This week has been interesting. Nothing to really look forward to like I have for the past few weeks, but the idea of being back in monotony was kind of nice. It was like i was actually living here, you know where you just go about what you need to do, nothing seems special necessarily, and you are just in the flow of the atmosphere you're surrounded by. I went to the night market last night, hadn't done that in awhile. And i met a woman, Sarahpi (pi being the title given before or after a name to indicate brother or sister-Thailand strangely enough, is apparently the only country to address each other as family) whose English was very good, i conversed with her a little bit about her life, her husband was American, they met in Saudi Arabia, and moved here, he is deceased now, and she spends time every now and then helping out her friend in her jewelry kiosk. I busted out some of my Thai, I think she was pleased, and that put a smile on both our faces! And then today i had to make Webster sound good (not too hard ; )in front of administrators from other schools in Thailand, one being the Governor of Petchaburi. Several of them seemed to really take a liking to me, after only speaking on a panel for about 20 minutes; afterwards an American came up and told me i was on the exact path i needed to be for what i expressed i wanted to accomplish, and the governor was very adamant on me ditching soccer for Muay Thai...perhaps?!
24 March 2010
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This week has been interesting. Nothing to really look forward to like I have for the past few weeks, but the idea of being back in monotony was kind of nice. It was like i was actually living here, you know where you just go about what you need to do, nothing seems special necessarily, and you are just in the flow of the atmosphere you're surrounded by. I went to the night market last night, hadn't done that in awhile. And i met a woman, Sarahpi (pi being the title given before or after a name to indicate brother or sister-Thailand strangely enough, is apparently the only country to address each other as family) whose English was very good, i conversed with her a little bit about her life, her husband was American, they met in Saudi Arabia, and moved here, he is deceased now, and she spends time every now and then helping out her friend in her jewelry kiosk. I busted out some of my Thai, I think she was pleased, and that put a smile on both our faces! And then today i had to make Webster sound good (not too hard ; )in front of administrators from other schools in Thailand, one being the Governor of Petchaburi. Several of them seemed to really take a liking to me, after only speaking on a panel for about 20 minutes; afterwards an American came up and told me i was on the exact path i needed to be for what i expressed i wanted to accomplish, and the governor was very adamant on me ditching soccer for Muay Thai...perhaps?!
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what like he wanted you to quit playing soccer?
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ReplyDeletewell for the tournament yes. Basically, he told us we'd be playing and had a spot and the next day at practice said they found two people to replace us. So... i could go back once it's over and play for fun, if they even decide to do that.
ReplyDeleteso does that mean i can call you Madelinepi now??? and the rest of our siblings would be defined as follows Tesspi, maxinepi, Torinpi : ) makes me smile
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