A day in the Life and May
I am not working many hours right now (4 a week) but making do with my savings. I should triple these hours before the end of the month.
I still get up at 6 or 7 and have a yogurt and a coffee. I see if anything is worth watching on my three English channels (ESPN, Discovery or Star Movie). Occasionally the Thai channels will have something in English. If not then I read (right now I am reading a lot of Dean Kootnz and Ann Rule). Usually I will go on the internet from 9 to 11 looking at job sites, answering mail and playing games on Yahoo - any chess players out there?) At 11 I go to lunch about a block down the Soi. There is a women who makes Sap (a Thai noodle dish with Mu - Pork) or I will have fried rice and mu. Next to her is a lady who makes coffee and tea drinks. Her English is good and I have made a few friends here. It's also a nice place for the ladies to flirt with me (not that I would flirt back you understand). There's also an older lady that comes once in a while that I call Mama - she's in her late 60's and has a dry sense of humor.
In the early afternoon I go back and take a nap or read a book. If it's a school night I will look over my lesson plans for the evening. School night I leave at 3:30 to catch the bus to Future Park (a mall about 4 times the size of Dayton Mall) where I catch a Canon van to the Canon factory. I teach from 5:20 to 7:20 and am back at Future Park by 8.
If it is a non school night or not a date night with May (more about her later) I will go back down to the "Juice Lady" and have another drink and allow the ladies to flirt with me (they are just shameless). I then walk down to the end of the soi (street) to see what's available for dinner. At the night market are many food stalls from rice to curry dishes, fresh fruits and vegetables (the watermelon is the sweetest I have ever tasted - and the juice just runs down your cheek - sorry Trish I couldn't resist).
If I can't find anything I will go the the 7-11 and buy the ingredients to make tuna or ham sandwiches. Pork products are better over here. It is the primary meat in Thailand. Beef is rare and expensive.
I will have dinner and watch a little of the tube, go back on the internet for a couple of hours and read up to 10 or 11. Then off to dream land.
MAY - the lady not the month
May is a 34 year old Thai women who works at Hoya. She has beautiful dark shoulder length hair, brown eyes and one of the most beautiful smiles I have ever seen. She stands up to my shoulders and is not one of those thin Thai women you read so much about. Her family lives about 2 hours northwest of Rangsit. She is the 3rd daughter of four and she has a younger brother. She has a son with the nickname of Golf and apparently lost her husband about 8 or 9 years ago (not a topic she wants to talk about). She has worked at Hoya Lens for about 8 years and is a foreman.
She was in my B1 class. Always very quiet and I ALWAYS had to ask her to speak up when reading or answering questions. Back at Christmas time she sent me an SMS wishing me Merry Christmas and then another one wishing me Happy New Year. I was able to ascertain that she was the May from Hoya Lens. I thought about her (I wasn't to see her until the 10th of January and had a lot of free time). We sort of flirted a bit through SMS messages and I couldn't wait until the 10th. I had a morning class and then the B1 class from 2 to 4. I felt like a school boy and I swear that in the record books the 10th of January was the longest morning on record.
Finally 2 PM made it and she walks in.
To be continued
Aren't I a stinker
DERMAN
I still get up at 6 or 7 and have a yogurt and a coffee. I see if anything is worth watching on my three English channels (ESPN, Discovery or Star Movie). Occasionally the Thai channels will have something in English. If not then I read (right now I am reading a lot of Dean Kootnz and Ann Rule). Usually I will go on the internet from 9 to 11 looking at job sites, answering mail and playing games on Yahoo - any chess players out there?) At 11 I go to lunch about a block down the Soi. There is a women who makes Sap (a Thai noodle dish with Mu - Pork) or I will have fried rice and mu. Next to her is a lady who makes coffee and tea drinks. Her English is good and I have made a few friends here. It's also a nice place for the ladies to flirt with me (not that I would flirt back you understand). There's also an older lady that comes once in a while that I call Mama - she's in her late 60's and has a dry sense of humor.
In the early afternoon I go back and take a nap or read a book. If it's a school night I will look over my lesson plans for the evening. School night I leave at 3:30 to catch the bus to Future Park (a mall about 4 times the size of Dayton Mall) where I catch a Canon van to the Canon factory. I teach from 5:20 to 7:20 and am back at Future Park by 8.
If it is a non school night or not a date night with May (more about her later) I will go back down to the "Juice Lady" and have another drink and allow the ladies to flirt with me (they are just shameless). I then walk down to the end of the soi (street) to see what's available for dinner. At the night market are many food stalls from rice to curry dishes, fresh fruits and vegetables (the watermelon is the sweetest I have ever tasted - and the juice just runs down your cheek - sorry Trish I couldn't resist).
If I can't find anything I will go the the 7-11 and buy the ingredients to make tuna or ham sandwiches. Pork products are better over here. It is the primary meat in Thailand. Beef is rare and expensive.
I will have dinner and watch a little of the tube, go back on the internet for a couple of hours and read up to 10 or 11. Then off to dream land.
MAY - the lady not the month
May is a 34 year old Thai women who works at Hoya. She has beautiful dark shoulder length hair, brown eyes and one of the most beautiful smiles I have ever seen. She stands up to my shoulders and is not one of those thin Thai women you read so much about. Her family lives about 2 hours northwest of Rangsit. She is the 3rd daughter of four and she has a younger brother. She has a son with the nickname of Golf and apparently lost her husband about 8 or 9 years ago (not a topic she wants to talk about). She has worked at Hoya Lens for about 8 years and is a foreman.
She was in my B1 class. Always very quiet and I ALWAYS had to ask her to speak up when reading or answering questions. Back at Christmas time she sent me an SMS wishing me Merry Christmas and then another one wishing me Happy New Year. I was able to ascertain that she was the May from Hoya Lens. I thought about her (I wasn't to see her until the 10th of January and had a lot of free time). We sort of flirted a bit through SMS messages and I couldn't wait until the 10th. I had a morning class and then the B1 class from 2 to 4. I felt like a school boy and I swear that in the record books the 10th of January was the longest morning on record.
Finally 2 PM made it and she walks in.
To be continued
Aren't I a stinker
DERMAN
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