Everyone in Thailand wakes up super early. It seems like most people get up and start working by 6:00-8:00 AM, for some even on the weekend. I wonder if they ever sleep in late?
This morning, I had breakfast with Porr. Pook left this morning to go tutor nearby. We had rice with an egg omelette (filled with a savory vegetable and pork mixture) and tom yum goong, a classic, spicy lemongrass and shrimp soup here. After we finished eating, we washed the dishes and are now chilling in the dining room. I am trying to take notes on webcasts for my Physics 8B class next semester and learn how to write in Thai. The Thai alphabet has 44 constants, a separate group of vowels, and four different tone scripts. Constants can be part of either the low, middle or high class. Each letter has two parts to its name and can be surrounded by the vowels.
Around 11 o' clock, I got a chance to check-in with Nicole and see how she was doing before we headed out. All I knew was that I needed to be ready to go by 12:30 pm, but was not sure where or what exactly we were going to do. It turned out that for lunch, we were going to a local noodle place! Here's some pictures.
After lunch, we also went to a cafe before driving to Suphanburi to visit a Thai Buddhist temple. I got a really good green tea drink. We seriously need one of these cafes in the United States.
Today, my host family took me to a Thai Buddhist temple to offer some prayer. We bought and lit some candles and incenses to use, as well as 'phuang malai' (jasmine garland) to decorate. After we prayed, we shook containers filled with numbered bamboo sticks (shake 3 times before picking one) to discover and read about our fortunes. The numbers on the stick correspond to these fortunes written on paper on a nearby board. According to my host sister, mine means that I will find and meet my soulmate. Yay! That's good news! We took a lot of pictures today. For once, I look strangely tall in almost all of them.
For dinner, we had rice with chicken and cucumbers. We mainly eat at home, but my host family does not always cook the food themselves. Sometimes, they will buy side dishes from the markets to have for later meals, but somehow, this all seems to happen without me ever noticing they are gone. Magic, I say. Also, I am never hungry because we are always eating. I think I'm going to gain fifteen pounds by the time I go back. For dessert, we had green mangoes. They were more crisp and sour than the ones we've had so far, but still good. Apparently, there are over three hundred different types of mangoes in Thailand! My host family and the surrounding houses have many mango trees, so they actually got the fruit from their backyard! And after dinner, Pook helped me learn some more Thai. I did not meet my host dad today, but possible tomorrow?
That's all for now!
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