Sawasdee kaa
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006As you might have guessed, “sawasdee kaa” (accompanied by a little bow where you press your palms together in praying style) is how you say “hello” in Thai. This is one of a grand total of two phrases that I can say in Thai.
Language learning, obviously, has not been a big emphasis of my time here, but I’m feeling spoiled because it’s so warm, so easy, so cheap (well, compared to America, not to China). The CEE conference was lovely and informative, time afterward has been lovely and spent with fellow CEEers. I’ve browsed in used bookstores and eaten more Western food that I’ve eaten in the entire last five months in China.
And I don’t know if I’m ready to go back, but I will go back anyway and be happy when I get there.
Longer entry later.
Christina