
Originally Posted by
Elin
Today I sat beside my Thai friend at lunch time, and she randomly started teaching me Thai words. First she wrote my name in Thai. Then she giggled and wrote the Thai word for love, wrote it side by side with my name, and asked what it meant. Then she wrote a word expressing a strong conviction about something, stuck it in the sentence, and giggled again.
The conversation moved on a little bit, and eventually, she wrote down a word to teach me a certain tone in Thai. I asked what it meant, and she said "smile". I then asked how you express ownership in Thai, and she wrote that. Then I turned to her, grinned, and told her in Thai, "I really love your smile." She clapped her hands with joy, kept saying how much she loved me, then cried a little and told me that she wished she had gotten to know me better sooner. After she wiped the tears from her eyes, she wrote the Thai word for "embarrassment". :'D My life here is so unbelievably cute. It makes no sense at all.