#5 Roommates

ROOMMATES

Okay if you have been reading my blog you'll know that I've just skipped a few numbers in my tributes but I was a little ambitious trying to do 30 of these things. So, I will try to at least do the last 5 of these while wrapping up my last 2 weeks in PlaPak village.

This past friday marked my roommate's last day in Thailand before heading home 2 weeks early to start a graduate program in Washington D.C. The week has been full of good-bye dinners and a late night singing our hearts out to Karokee...what is a better way of leaving Thailand than stuffing your face with Thai food and singing? Nother the less it was sad to see the person who I've come home to after long days of teaching go. I was very lucky to have another American to live with the year and be able to talk fluently in english over our dinners after struggling through communicating in Thai all day. Over the course of the year we have been there for each other through the good and bad days, always listening pactiently to whatever crazy thing went down in the classroom. We became co-parents to our neighbors dog- Cha Dam (see post) and to a new litter of kittens, both sharing the love for animals. We both have a care-free attitude and trudged through living in a gecko-filled, ant swarmed, moldy, cob-webbed filled house just saying Mai Bpen Rai. I couldn't have asked for a better person to live with and help me through the year.

Along with Amanda I still have my Thai Roommate Pi Yok with me for these next 2 weeks. She also, couldn't have been a better roommate. She gives us our space when we need it but is always there for us cooking delicious dinners or buying us a cold drink on a hot day after school. Even though she speaks very little english she now says she can understand a lot of our conversations at dinner. We have become a nice family that I will greatly miss.

The principle of PlaPak Wit, me, and Amanda at a good-bye dinner in the city.

Saying goodbye at the bus station with the english teachers