Respect

Ok, so when I first got here I didn't even realize what people were doing and saying when they greet each other. I must have been really out of it getting off that plane.

Anyway, even though my host mother does not speak English she is a very good teacher. She will point at something and tell me the name of it in Thai. I listen and repeat until I get it right and most of the time I forget in the following 5 minutes but she always goes back and tells me again. Every Thai person knows at least one English word, and the one that everyone knows is 'happy'. The way they say it is soo funny if I can catch it on video I will.

Back to what I was saying, my host mom first taught me the traditional Thai greeting. Its hard to explain but I found this video that pretty much says it all, I might make my own later though :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRtsCuVqxtQ

I have to do this for all my teachers, my parents, and all the old people. A lot of the time at school you see boys doing it to girls (like a lame way of flirting). When I walked into my first class which thank god was English, every body in the class went crazy when I shook my teachers hand. My English teacher is not Thai, he is from the middle east.

That's all for now :)

Rachel