MicahJohn

Category: Thailand

  • Friends

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    God has specifically answered my specific prayer for friends here at the church. The last two evenings I’ve had a great time playing basketball and soccer, eating food, and playing guitar with three guys here.

  • Ubon

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    I had a good visit with friends in Ubon this past weekend. I rode the train up Thursday night (skipping class on Friday). I actually slept pretty well on the train. Not realizing a breakdown during the night had put the train two hours behind schedule I got up earlier than I needed to. The…

  • Bargain

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    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…

  • Language

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    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…

  • Did You Know?

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    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,…