Can you say Cigarette? I knew you could.
Eliyas came home this weekend with a Thai vocabulary book that we were supposed to read from. You know how it goes… sound out the words, memorize for future use, and so on. So we get down the page a…
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Bangkok: City with a Really Long Name
Today in our Thai language class at a local university, we learned that the name for Bangkok is not, in fact, Bangkok. The Name is actually Krung Thep, meaning City of Angels. Oh wait. Actually, it’s not. Turns out that…
Summertime… and the living is easy.
Tonight we ventured out to a noodle stand near our house for a lavish 60 Baht ($1.60) meal. We ordered in broken Thai (better than NO Thai) and got (mostly) what we intended. So as we sat there an elephant…