lunedì 11 giugno 2007
oooooo!
an old coworker of mine, who i 'adopted' like a little sister because she was super shy and super sweet and couldn't speak english very well, just invited me to go to thailand with her at the end of the year! what's better is that she's FROM thailand so she [obviously] speaks thai and her uncle owns a bunch of hotels there so i think we'd have a free place to stay. she goes twice a year and i kept telling her how much i wanted to go back when i was working with her. it would be so cool to go with a 'native' to show me all around and help translate for me!plus, she's super cool and super funny. since we both worked together and she didn't speak english well and i didn't speak more than 3 words of thai, we both did the speak-slowly-and-clearly-and-use-small-words thing and before long, we both understood what each other were trying to say in a weird mix of english-thai. almost everyone else at the office did the TALK REALLY LOUDLY to the foreign person thing because as we all know, yelling english at someone will make them understand it THAT much better. she would roll her eyes after they left and would exclaim "lint ears!" after them. [i found it hilarious but maybe you had to be there.] now, can i wrangle up enough vacation days to go?
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That's excellent. :) My friend Tara is in Thailand right now. I can't wait for her to get back, so I can see the pictures. She said the country is just beautiful. (I've obviously never been there.)Good luck getting the time off!!
Whoa! That's cool! I'd be savin' 'em up! Damn!
Cool! I'd like to hear also what she thought of the people in Thailand when she returns, as the idea to get a TEFL certificate and go over there to teach English doesn't seem to have faded overnight.
yes. and take me with you.
My friends K and G may be moving back there soon. I'm hoping I can visit them, but the flights are so expensive... :(
'almost everyone else at the office did the TALK REALLY LOUDLY to the foreign person thing because as we all know, yelling english at someone will make them understand it THAT much better'uff, my dad has a lot of foreign business clients [he works for a japanese company] and sometimes they come over for dinner. they always talk perfect english, and yet my mom STILL insists on talking so loudly and enunciating her every word to them. it makes me cringe >_<;
lucky lucky fun fun.you deserve it
You should convince her to let you invite a few friends along as well.LIVE JOURNAL TOUR GROUP!!! :)
"almost everyone else at the office did the TALK REALLY LOUDLY to the foreign person thing because as we all know, yelling english at someone will make them understand it THAT much better."[dies laughing]That was hillarious.I want to go!!!!!!!
RIGHT ON!
A few of the foreign students in my little "foreign student apartment building" are from Thailand, and they're all really great people. Pretty much all of the people that I've met, from Thailand, or Korea, China, Hong Kong, whatever, so long as you don't just take the "typical American" attitude with them, they're always amazingly nice. If I were you, and could swing the time off of work, I'd go in an instant. I'm really tempted, if I can swing the money, to take a quick trip over to Korea before I return to the US to visit some of the friends that I made.
You lucky girl! It'd be great to explore a new country like that :) eeer sorry "Y-ooooooou LUC-KEE GIIIIRL!!"prolly the same people who think all Asians are just one big ethnic culture :)
I just bought a pucca steering wheel cover to add to my Pucca collection... It's so soft!
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