This will be the first of several Top 10 Lists to come in the near future. Other future Top 10 Lists to include:
* Top 10 Shopping Experiences
* Top 10 Yummy Foods to Eat While in Thailand
* Top 10 Things to Avoid While in Thailand
* Top 10 Wish List of Places to Go in Thailand (and why they're on our list)
If you would like to see one list before another, please post a comment and we'll try and get that list out first. :0)
10. There is low suction in the toilets (in the locations that actually have a toilet bowl and not a squat toilet) so when one wipes themselves, they then put the toilet paper in the wastebasket. Then they use the scooper in the bucket of water on the side of the toilet and put a scoop of water in the toilet bowl to flush naturally. (This is in the more rural areas. Generally the airport and nice restaurants have toilet bowls or toilet bowls AND squat toilets.)
9. They have Amazing Race Asia on TV here. The prize for the winners is $500,000 and they travel throughout Asia, not the world. The host is a cute Asian version of Phil. There is also the Asian version of The Biggest Loser.
8. Thai guards, police, etc. like their whistles. They blow them all the time to direct you in traffic, even when you are not moving.
7. If you learn to say in Thai that you don’t speak much Thai, the lovely Thai people will start a conversation in Thai because they assume if you know enough to say you don’t know much, you know Thai.
6. Grow thick skin. It is common for someone to tell you that you look fat today or your hair does not look as beautiful as normal. One day one of the IAs at school was talking about what she was going to wear to this formal dinner that we were all going to. She was telling a friend of mine that she might have a dress for her. She didn’t want me to feel left out so she said, “I’d love to bring you one of my dresses but I don’t think we are the same size.” Yeah honey, I’m twice your width!
5. We’ve been told that this is the rainiest, mildest rainy seasons ever. Our take is that someone is trying to give us more time to acclimate to the warm temperatures. Regardless, it is still HOT. Going from the bottom floor to the top floor of our apartment feels like we are entering a sauna. But our skin is doing GREAT!
4. If a man feels the urge to empty his bladder, he just pulls over to the side of the road and pees in a ditch. It is common to see a man on the side of the road with his back to the road and a stream of pee going into the ditch.
3. It is not uncommon to see an elephant walk down a busy street in a Bangkok suburb.
2. Washington has its spiders. Australia has its cockroaches. Thailand has its geckos. Geckos line the ceiling and walls of the walkways where we live. We also have a 2 inch gecko that likes the inside of our home. He's never in the kitchen. Just on the walls and on the living room floor. He's cuuutteee - something I wouldn't say about spiders or cockroaches.
1. Most mornings, I choose to curl my hair with a curling iron. I do this because I think it smooths out the friz. The other day I decided to ride my bike to school instead of taking the van. I have to say that my hair looked FAB! I got to school and walked by my reflection in the window – FRIZ BALL! Moral: Why bother?!?
9. They have Amazing Race Asia on TV here. The prize for the winners is $500,000 and they travel throughout Asia, not the world. The host is a cute Asian version of Phil. There is also the Asian version of The Biggest Loser.
8. Thai guards, police, etc. like their whistles. They blow them all the time to direct you in traffic, even when you are not moving.
7. If you learn to say in Thai that you don’t speak much Thai, the lovely Thai people will start a conversation in Thai because they assume if you know enough to say you don’t know much, you know Thai.
6. Grow thick skin. It is common for someone to tell you that you look fat today or your hair does not look as beautiful as normal. One day one of the IAs at school was talking about what she was going to wear to this formal dinner that we were all going to. She was telling a friend of mine that she might have a dress for her. She didn’t want me to feel left out so she said, “I’d love to bring you one of my dresses but I don’t think we are the same size.” Yeah honey, I’m twice your width!
5. We’ve been told that this is the rainiest, mildest rainy seasons ever. Our take is that someone is trying to give us more time to acclimate to the warm temperatures. Regardless, it is still HOT. Going from the bottom floor to the top floor of our apartment feels like we are entering a sauna. But our skin is doing GREAT!
4. If a man feels the urge to empty his bladder, he just pulls over to the side of the road and pees in a ditch. It is common to see a man on the side of the road with his back to the road and a stream of pee going into the ditch.
3. It is not uncommon to see an elephant walk down a busy street in a Bangkok suburb.
2. Washington has its spiders. Australia has its cockroaches. Thailand has its geckos. Geckos line the ceiling and walls of the walkways where we live. We also have a 2 inch gecko that likes the inside of our home. He's never in the kitchen. Just on the walls and on the living room floor. He's cuuutteee - something I wouldn't say about spiders or cockroaches.
1. Most mornings, I choose to curl my hair with a curling iron. I do this because I think it smooths out the friz. The other day I decided to ride my bike to school instead of taking the van. I have to say that my hair looked FAB! I got to school and walked by my reflection in the window – FRIZ BALL! Moral: Why bother?!?
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