I am pictured here with my host family at the temple in Lamphun. The exterior is just as beautiful as the interior. My host family is so great and love helping me learn Thai. Last night we spent an hour working on reading and writing Thai. My host mother is so goofy and jokes around with me all of the time. Several nights ago we hung up my laundry in the dark and I wore my headlamp. She had never seen one before and she laughed and laughed.
Excerpt from journal 9-08-09:
Ahh! I'm euphoric! My host parents are so great! Tonight the Thai was flowing. I even understood my host mother without even trying--granted the context helped. We were at the dinner table and she said to my host father, "Cody likes mangoes more than she likes rice." I laughed and she looked at me shocked and asked, "did you understand me?"
I shouldn't have told my host mother that I'd be sad when mangoes go out of season because today she went out and bought 2 kilos of mangoes just for me. I had three tonight!
My host father said that my Thai keeps getting better because each night I bring a notebook to the dinner table to practice new words. I feel like I've made a lot of progress for the first two weeks. There is still a lot that I don't understand, but I am beginning to communicate in full sentences.
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