I am getting settled in with the Go Seen Family of Thailand. I will be at the homestay for the next 9 weeks while I do language classes and practice teaching and before I go to my permanent site in late March.
The father is a principle of a school so the house is pretty nice. The sectioned off a 7 by 7 area of the porch for me. I have a very thin mattress on the floor and a mosquito net. The toilet is outside, concrete walls with corregated tin roofing. The toilet is squat style, which means its basically a porcelin hole in the ground, which you flush by pouring water in it. And the shower is a bowl in the big water basin.
The family is great. Paa Go Seen is my Dad. Noke is my mom. I is my 4 year old little sister who has a 21 day old puppy she carries everywhere. Pen is my Aunt and Bow is my Uncle. Oom is their 6 year old daughter. Maa is the grandmom. There are some communication issues for sure. I have become an expert at saying "Mai Kow Jai Ka" which means "I don't understand." But they are really easygoing and really look out for me.
Today my Unce and the girls followed me around for 2 hours as I ran. I tried to tell them they didn't need to, I was ok; but either he didn't understand or didn't want to leave me. It turns out that one dirt road with tall sugar canes or corn fields looks pretty much like the next, so it was ok that I had some help in case I got lost.
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