One of the things we're looking for in Senior Servants is adaptability. Twice in 4 days our schedule has been changed at the last minute!
On Friday the plan was to have our Thai teacher come to teach at our house. But on Thursday night she called to say that she was unable to find the house when she had been loooking for it that day! So we headed off to her house instead!
Tan is a gorgeous young woman who teaches Thai. So does her husband! Learning some new Thai words was lots of fun and quite challenging, especially when they have sounds in their language that we have never experienced and so we don't know how to get our tongues and mouths around them. It gave us a better understanding of how difficult it can be for speakers of other languages to learn English.
But we all had fresh confidence on Tuesday night to go to the market to try out some of our new skills as we asked prices, bargained and bought our evening meal.
For my dinner I bought, anticlockwise from front right, mango and sticky rice
wrapped in banana leaf, deep fried somethings that I ate with a
skewer - perhaps yam pieces in batter - with hot sauce served in a
plastic bag, delicious salad in a plastic bag and some yummy yummy fresh
coconut patties. Some of it I was able to buy using little bits of
Thai! Total cost for my food around AU$2! It's cheap for us to eat in
Thailand.
This guy was selling bite-sized jellies. I bought one for about AU 6c
And this is my salad on its way!
And more of our local Doi Saket market on Tuesday evening!
We came home excited about all the new delights we had bought for our dinner and sit at the dining table to have 'Show and Tell' and share tastes.
Our Tuesday nights at the market are a highlight.
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