Things I will definitely miss about Thailand
- all the wonderful people I met here
- the smell of incense at streetside shrines
- Thailand’s lavish use of purple and gold in decorating
- yummy Thai dishes, especially green curry, som tom, and mango sticky rice
- the delicious (and cheap!!) tropical fruits, especially litchi, guava, papaya, pineapple, dragonfruit, passionfruit, and of course Thai coconuts
- being greeted with cute bows and ‘sawa-dee-ka’ or ‘sawa-dee-khrap’ all the time
- Buddhist monks in orange robes on the sky train and the side of the road
- the beautiful tropical flowers growing even in the city
- two words: Thai massage
- that indefinable sense of adventure that accompanies even the simplest activities in a foreign country
Things I definitely will not miss
- the humidity and mosquitoes
- drinking pepto bismol every day
- not being able to read nearly everything I see
- not being able to communicate with most people I meet
- having strangers take photos of me or with me just because of the way I look
- feeling like my feet are smelly and dirty because of having to walk barefoot all the time in temples over the same sweat-and-bacteria-streaked floor as thousands of other people
- not being able to rinse my mouth with tap water after brushing my teeth
- being far away from loved ones
1 comment:
I like your lists, Kelly--and the pictures throughout your blog are great!
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