Girls sit side saddle on the backs of boys motorcycles. The US needs to get onboard with the 21st century Prince Charming upgrade.
The Thai enjoy PDA. Witnessed pre-pubescent couple sucking face on mini bus. Blessed myself with the sign of the cross to purge the sin from surroundings.
Little known truth about lady boys: they're very nice. You can identify them by their extra big smiles in case the boob implants are tampering with your usual gender classification strategies.
My body feels at home in this climate/ I think I'm Asian.
Flying over/ driving through farming land always really frustrates me. I have so many questions but nobody knows the answers.
Scratch that. Maybe they do know the answers, but I don't speak enough Thai to find out.
Language CDs and voice recordings in Thai are highly deceptive. The recorded voices always sound so lovely and sing song, but when real Thai people speak it doesn't sound sing song. Real life Germans still sound bossy and real life French still sound snooty and real life Italians still sound argumentative, why do real life Thai have to sound constipated?
If I could speak Thai I'd ask my mini bus driver if it's really that hard to stay within the yellow lines and not drive on the shoulder of the freeway the whole time, but I don't know if my comment would make any change in the safety of the drive because passive aggressiveness may not translate.
Do most anthropologists start taking notes as soon as they get into the field, or do they sometimes just sit there and daydream about getting into a new change of clothes and worry about when they're going to get a chance to go pee next?
There was a dead dog on the side of the road and it looked like it had been pumped full of helium except that it wasn't floating away.
I usually base how much I like a guy off of how warm he keeps his house. That's why I'm always falling in love in the summer and when I visit places with tropical climates. Those guys can't avoid keeping their houses warm. Thai boys + 1, American boys 0
Just read this to Papa. We both laughed out loud. Your descriptions are spot on. Keep it up!
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