I've left the cold Chengdu winter temporarily to take a month's vacation in Thailand, where I'll be finding out whether real Thai ice teas are as delicious as New Haven Thai ice teas. I had one last night and it was ...only average. But I'm here for a month, so I'm withholding judgement for now.
I've also bought a number of learning Thai books, and that'll be a project to see how much Thai I can learn in a month. Readysetgo. The alphabet isn't easy, but then, it's no Chinese, either. This is day two and I'm floundering pitifully, but give me a break, I haven't even finished learning the alphabet.
So far Bangkok is beautiful, multicultural, civilized, hip (read that however you want, it'll probably still be true), fascinating and relatively clean, nothing to do with the backpackers' ghetto and cesspool of sex tourism we've all heard about. I mean, it IS the former, and I assume it's the latter also, but it's clearly so many other things too that I'm loving it much more than I thought I would.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
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