Today was my first official day of language school...now, I just want to make sure that you know what it is that we are doing exactly...it's not like school in that we sit in a classroom with desks and we listen to a teacher all together. Rather, each member of our team has their own teacher (or helper) and we sit in a room with them and, at the moment, make sounds at them. If anyone walked by and had no idea what we were doing, it would seem pretty strange and pretty funny, but it has been fun so far!!! I'm training my mouth to make sounds it has never made before. There are two sounds that involve speaking from the centre or back of your mouth...one sounds kind of like the 'u' in 'just' if you were putting on a southern accent. The other one sounds like the 'e' in the word 'term' if you were putting on a brittish accent. I'm not sure if that really gets it across very well, but just imagine difficult sounds and then add tones on top of that.
I'm not sure if I mentioned in my last post, but I now have a bicycle which has made life in Lop Buri much more fun and interesting, and much smaller!!! I'll add photos another time, but my bike is bright blue (sii faa) and has a basket on the front and an extra seat on the back (for my doubling pleasure) and it's about 1000 years old. I refer to it as my Mary Poppins bike. This was mine and Bitsy's mode of transportation for this last week as she was waiting to purchase a motorbike. Seriously, I have to say that we stuck out like a sore thumb...two farang (foreign) girls weaving through traffic. Also, on Mondays everyone in Thailand wears yellow shirts to celebrate the king...so imagine two foreign girls wearing yellow and pedalling through the city. Amazing!!! Needless to say, there have been many honks and plenty of laughs as we ride by. And I have been getting my exercise as I've been biking for two in the heat of the day with a bike that only has one speed...
Well...I best be getting to bed...I have another long day ahead of me of making sounds and cycling around. Night...
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