Author: Micah
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Bargain
Yesterday I had a good dinner with the people from my class at language school. One of the highlights was when one of the guys tried to practice his bargaining skills. The item had a starting price of 70 baht. After he asked the girl if she could lower the price she answered she could…
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Language
This week I have had what could honestly be called conversations (with classifiers such as “stumbling,” “simple,” etc). Along with increased speech has come increased errors. One of the most amusing was my response to the question, “how long have you been in Thailand?” I answered, “three minutes.” The word minute and the word for…
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Did You Know?
I just discovered that the days of the week in Thai are named after the same planets/sun/moon as the days of the week in English. I guess whenever the seven day week showed up it came with each day’s tie to a planet. For those of you who don’t know each day’s celestial body: Sunday-Sun,…
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Weekend Away
I recharge when I am in a rhythm. Breaking rhythm wears me out. This past weekend was good, but it left me with an empty tank. Saturday afternoon I went again to Pi Tot’s house. I spent most of the afternoon playing guitar. In the evening Pi Tot and I went to Pi Silk’s house…
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Skype (and my love/hate relationship)
This morning I set out to get skype working on my computer and make contact with my family. Due to the age of the computer I have in tow, I could not get the application to start. Using AIM Dad suggested finding an older version of Skype. That did the trick. Once working, Skype was…