Dear Charles, #7
i thought i was going to try and not post as much but...screw that. too much happens here that i want other people to think are cool. so you better think this is cool.
so monday was 'australia day', i know all of you that celebrate that know what im talking about :) so i went with kyndra and some of the people she works with to this american/australian restaurant a little ways away from bandu where we live and had some good 'ol fish and chips. there are like 4 australians that she works with and one lady who grew up in england but lived in australia for many many years, so shes like...honorary auzzie. but she sounds english. so most of the night i again, looked stupid while i admired their accents, while they said simple things like "i would like a hamburger and a bbq chicken pizza" aahhh so cool. plus they called ketchup, 'tomato sauce'. but it was all in the accent. plus for the first time ever i had an auzzie tell me that i had an accent. thats one of those things i always knew but, thought that i didnt really. just like they dont think they have an accent.
anyways so we played australia trivia games that i knew non of the answers too, and sang the australian national anthem. which i just hummed.
on tuesday night i got to go up to the mountains and visit an AKA tribe with kyndra. one of the women she works with is from there so she invited a couple girls to come up an celebrate the laos new year. it was so great- (i just got my camera charger [thanks mom] so i can take pictures finally) i have pictures of the house we ate dinner in that i'll put up when i figure out how to do it. so we had a thai style dinner which was basically, we all are in a circle on a mat on the floor of this wood/bamboo house and there were plates and bowls of rice and mysterious meats and curries. we ate family style and it was so delicious. they had sticky rice and regular rice, and lemme tell you, you have not had sticky rice till youve had it here. its so...sticky! and the thai word for white rice translates to 'beautiful rice' which i think is funny.
so after dinner we made our way up the mountain a little higher (in the dark..its a wonder i didnt fall on my face through the trees and roots and things) to a place where more AKA people were playing music and dancing around a colorful and lighted monument kinda thing. in the beginning i just sat around with the other farangs ('foreigners'...however this is the last time im giving you the cheat sheet for that, from now on you gotta just know it. ooo im gettin tricky on you guys!) untill this little woman from the tribe grabbed my hand and brought me into the dance. she was so precious and little and was trying to teach me how to do it. of course im pro and got it right away...oh yeah and im totally proud and dont have a humble bone in my body. (arent you proud parents? haha im totally kidding)
so it was a great night, good food, good dancing, cute old ladies.
oh yeah i also thought i would mention to you all that im in the tutoring class with esther right now and i had to sneeze and so i joked that i was going to sneeze all over her and she put her paper over her head in fright and told me that i was quote 'a gross girl'. then later on i was biting my nails and she looked at me and said, ' youre actually chewing on your fingernails? thats why i called you a gross girl' hahaha im getting to a place i think where i know shes going to talk that way, so sometimes i say dumb stuff just to hear what she says to me.
im such a great teacher.
sawadeeka-anna