Yesterday was a holiday. It was the Queen's Birthday. It's called "Mother's Day". So it's like Mother's Day at home but it's also a big celebration of the Queen. Her picture is everywhere. So Happy Mother's Day mom!
It was weird having a Thursday off work. Today does NOT feel like a Friday. I'm going to work until the end of next week. Maeve gets here on Tuesday night. I'm taking Wednesday off and then teaching on Thursday and Friday. And then I'm outta here. But I still have to talk to Maeve about to where...
Wednesday night, Tam, Brad, Nan and I went to the movies. We went to see "Mor Jeb" which translates to "Dr. Pain" but in the subtitles was called "The Ex-terns". (Yes Jackie, it DID have english subtitles. V. exciting.) It was a pretty bad buddy movie but everything about it was so Thai that it was really fun. Most of the movie took place as a rural residency for the med students. So a lot of the jokes were about different Thai dialects (ex. -- "Why hasn't that patient come back?" -- Patient is dancing in the hallway -- "Your word for 'return' is the same as her word to 'sing and dance'"). There was a Buddhist monk who had stomach ulcers from his pre-monk drinking days. There was the 'sexy scene' where the girl emerges from a swimming pool, but she was dressed in a conservative bathing suit. And at the end of the movie the doctors get their jobs through a lottery system. (My province, Chonburi, was the province that the star wanted to get but ha ha ha didn't.)
Yesterday Tam got his sister to teach me how to cook Thai food. It was so much fun. People here don't have kitchens. There is literally no place to rent an apartment with a kitchen in Ban Bung. Tam's kitchen had an outdoor part, so all of the food is actually prepared outside. We made 'Gang Krati Gung' from scratch. It is prawns and pineapple in a red curry sauce with coconut milk. (Did you know that there is 'head coconut milk' and 'tail coconut milk'. We bought both in the market in plastic bags.) Some of the ingredients came from the garden and I could only write down the thai name for the chili peppers. It felt like barbequeing because we were outside but we had a wok full of curry on a gas burner.
After that I went to Brad's and watched movies for the rest of the day. I'm not that excited about this weekend. I am SO excited about Maeve coming on Tuesday.
It was weird having a Thursday off work. Today does NOT feel like a Friday. I'm going to work until the end of next week. Maeve gets here on Tuesday night. I'm taking Wednesday off and then teaching on Thursday and Friday. And then I'm outta here. But I still have to talk to Maeve about to where...
Wednesday night, Tam, Brad, Nan and I went to the movies. We went to see "Mor Jeb" which translates to "Dr. Pain" but in the subtitles was called "The Ex-terns". (Yes Jackie, it DID have english subtitles. V. exciting.) It was a pretty bad buddy movie but everything about it was so Thai that it was really fun. Most of the movie took place as a rural residency for the med students. So a lot of the jokes were about different Thai dialects (ex. -- "Why hasn't that patient come back?" -- Patient is dancing in the hallway -- "Your word for 'return' is the same as her word to 'sing and dance'"). There was a Buddhist monk who had stomach ulcers from his pre-monk drinking days. There was the 'sexy scene' where the girl emerges from a swimming pool, but she was dressed in a conservative bathing suit. And at the end of the movie the doctors get their jobs through a lottery system. (My province, Chonburi, was the province that the star wanted to get but ha ha ha didn't.)
Yesterday Tam got his sister to teach me how to cook Thai food. It was so much fun. People here don't have kitchens. There is literally no place to rent an apartment with a kitchen in Ban Bung. Tam's kitchen had an outdoor part, so all of the food is actually prepared outside. We made 'Gang Krati Gung' from scratch. It is prawns and pineapple in a red curry sauce with coconut milk. (Did you know that there is 'head coconut milk' and 'tail coconut milk'. We bought both in the market in plastic bags.) Some of the ingredients came from the garden and I could only write down the thai name for the chili peppers. It felt like barbequeing because we were outside but we had a wok full of curry on a gas burner.
After that I went to Brad's and watched movies for the rest of the day. I'm not that excited about this weekend. I am SO excited about Maeve coming on Tuesday.
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I am SO excited about coming too.
What- the Thai med student movie had english subtitles- I?m really pissed that i didn!t see it!
Jackie - we were actually going to see King Arthur. But missed it by a couple of hours. I was prepared to watch it in Thai without subtitles, but Nan asked if there were subtitles and there were!
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