Christmas Break Lists

My former roommate Mark taught me the importance of lists.  In his honor, I am going to tell about my break so far using them.

New Thai phrases I've learned:

- "Pom mai ben katoy krab" ("I am not a ladyboy")

- "Nam sapbarot" ("pineapple juice", literally "water pineapple")

- "Mai me arai krab" (meaning "nothing," in response to "what?")

- "Geow pan" ("talk pretty to the ladies" - I think this means I am a flirt, or maybe just polite, I'm not sure.)

Random experiences:

- Spending a few nights at a resort on the beach and falling asleep and waking up to the sound of waves.

- Hearing the song "popcorn" (the one that they used to make us dance to in elementary school) and having the strong urge to dance to it, luckily I resisted.

- Reading too much science fiction and waking up in the middle of the night honestly believing that Earth was under attack by aliens.

- Beginning to see the faces of friends from America in everyone I look at here (this is really weird, I am always double-taking and then realizing that it was not them).

- Being grateful that the baby gecko living in my room does his part to kill the baby ants slowly taking over my room, but wondering why he had to poop on my desk.

- Doing 4 loads of laundry in less than 1 week (as opposed to doing 1 load of laundry in less than 4 weeks).

Places I plan on eating:

- Kata Mama's (Check, I had cow pad moo sapbarot kei (pork fried rice with pineapple and eggs) and a shark steak.)

- Linda's

- The Yellow Room

- Anchor Inn (Check, I had a ham and cheese sandwich, a hawaiian burger with fries and a chocolate shake.)

- The market (Check, I have had plently of market foods, including sticky rice, spring rolls, beef jerky, banana pancakes and roast pork.

- AJ's Bar and Bistro (Check, the Canadian breakfast includes french toast, pineapple, American-style bacon, eggs and orange juice.)

- Blue Roof

- Meeting Place Number 5

- (Other possible restaurants to include a good steak diner, a Hawaiian pizza and something Mexican.)