Mama's Song: Joy in the Morning Light

Apr. 21, 2007

My Thai Friend

I just discovered that on this old computer, I have access to some old photos from back when we first started using digital cameras, and fancy camera to two megapixel photos.  I thought I'd introduce you to my Thai friends.  The last time I saw her was almost 5 years ago, about the time I took this photo.  The first time I met her was about 16 years ago, or so, when I was fresh out of college.  I had gone to Thailand to work for a couple years.  She was a secretary at the language school where I worked part time, and she was really nice.  I had an apartment nearby and so did she.  I had a kitchen, and she didn't.  She would just go out on the street and buy some food every day to eat.  This isn't as bad as it sounds, because you can get good food for cheep out there.  It is what lots of people do there.  But she was also a good cook and could make many wonderful Thai foods.  I wanted to learn how to cook Thai style, so we would go to the market.  She taught me how to shop, what different foods were, how to bargain, and how to get the right bus back home.  I would pay for the food.  At my apartment we would make a feast, and invite people over to eat.  It was so much fun!  We really had a good time together. Many years later, when I married, we went to Thailand for our honey moon, and I was able to see her again.  Then when my first baby was born, I gave my little sweetie her name.  Once, she even was able to save up enough Thai baht to fly to the United States!  She knows lots of people here, because of her job at the language school, but she chose to come and stay with us.  We gave her the best time we could, and of course, we cooked Thai food together, and had a feast, inviting over people to eat with us. All these years later, she still works at the same language school.  She is older, but so am I.  It has been 5 years since I saw her last, but every year, I long to go back and see her.  The only problem is now all of us need full price airline seats and that's quite a chunk of money for a one income family.

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Apr. 25, 2007 - Your Thai friend

Posted by Karen

How fun to see a picture of her! You must have bonded so well to choose to name your daughter after her. Sounds like you had a lot of good times together. Fun to see your children so many years younger in the picture too!

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