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3/31/09

We're not in Kansas anymore . . .

Top 25 things you have to get used to when living in Thailand:

1. bugs. Everywhere
2. your feet always being dirty
3. being sweaty and hot
4. dust blowing into your eyes
5. nothing being on time, or lasting the time it should (everything usually later and longer)
6. carrying toilet paper with you everywhere you go
7. taking 2-3 showers a day
8. the toilet being in the same tiled area as the shower and sink
9. using "squatty potties" aka- Balance
10. ordering food with NO MSG "seasoning"
11. taking your shoes off before you enter a house
12. ants- sometimes in Weird places
13. not having internet, even when you go to an internet cafe
14. trying new things- like food that looks anything but appetizing
15. swarms of mosquitoes
16. lizards on the walls of restaurants
17. all restaurants being outdoors as much as indoors
18. using A/C sparingly
19. being the only person you know who owns a clothes dryer
20. getting your feet wet every time you need to brush your teeth or wash your hands
21. FANS- and lots of them!
22. resisting the temptation of Cheap ice cream!
23. not putting toilet tissue in the toilet
24. no soap in the bathrooms
25. napkins the size of a playing card and the thickness of 1 ply toilet paper

3 comments:

  1. great list! wow. love the updates! love you both! <3

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  2. sounds like a wonderful miserable time!

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  3. Ah! Well, you guys are SO ahead of the game! Because 15 of those things sounded to me like you were describing summer at TM!!!!
    1-7, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21 & 24....

    Praying for ya'll!

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