Last night I went to the Saturday night walking street in downtown Chiang Rai. It was a very local place unlike the touristy night bazaar I went to earlier. I tried some octopus on a stick...it felt like I was eating a balloon..tasteless and everything. We also danced with the Thai folk and the Thai men taught us some groovy moves. They're all so friendly here. We met some dudes from the US there and it was so funny. We were telling them where we were all from and one girl with us is from Utah (of course) and one guy was like "Okay so I heard there's only like two types of people in Utah, the cool snowboarder people and...like...mormons." Hilarious and kind of awkward...I loved it. It hasn't been super weird living with mormons but it was funny today because there was only one other girl and me the whole morning while everyone went to church. It was really nice having the place to ourselves though,
I think Sunday is going to be my new favorite day. They all know I'm not mormon and not only that but I've talked to them a bit about what I think about religion and this morning there was another awkward incident because they were all leaving for church and I was laying on the hammock on the porch and one person was like "I hope you don't think we're just all crazy church-goers" and just looked at me. I wasn't sure what to say so I said "Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to." And then they left. Oh, it's also funny because a select few get mad if you say "oh my god." Wtf, very odd. Anyway, so I've kind of just been chilling and cleaning and doing physics on the porch today since it's raining. It's a nice break from the heat though. Tonight we're going to have breakfast for dinner and make pancakes and eggs at the LDS missionaries' house that live next door to us. They're a super old couple and luckily they haven't tried to convert me although I'm sure they can see it would be a lost cause. I thought I would be uncomfortable living with mormons but it turns out it's just hilarious. Oh and ps even though some get mad if I say "oh my god" but they throw around the n-word. Here's a quote from one of our LEADERS of all people: "I like black people in Africa, just not the ones in America." Wow.
Last night I went to the Saturday night walking street in downtown Chiang Rai. It was a very local place unlike the touristy night bazaar I went to earlier. I tried some octopus on a stick...it felt like I was eating a balloon..tasteless and everything. We also danced with the Thai folk and the Thai men taught us some groovy moves. They're all so friendly here. We met some dudes from the US there and it was so funny. We were telling them where we were all from and one girl with us is from Utah (of course) and one guy was like "Okay so I heard there's only like two types of people in Utah, the cool snowboarder people and...like...mormons." Hilarious and kind of awkward...I loved it. It hasn't been super weird living with mormons but it was funny today because there was only one other girl and me the whole morning while everyone went to church. It was really nice having the place to ourselves though, 
I think Sunday is going to be my new favorite day. They all know I'm not mormon and not only that but I've talked to them a bit about what I think about religion and this morning there was another awkward incident because they were all leaving for church and I was laying on the hammock on the porch and one person was like "I hope you don't think we're just all crazy church-goers" and just looked at me. I wasn't sure what to say so I said "Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to." And then they left. Oh, it's also funny because a select few get mad if you say "oh my god." Wtf, very odd. Anyway, so I've kind of just been chilling and cleaning and doing physics on the porch today since it's raining. It's a nice break from the heat though. Tonight we're going to have breakfast for dinner and make pancakes and eggs at the LDS missionaries' house that live next door to us. They're a super old couple and luckily they haven't tried to convert me although I'm sure they can see it would be a lost cause. I thought I would be uncomfortable living with mormons but it turns out it's just hilarious. Oh and ps even though some get mad if I say "oh my god" but they throw around the n-word. Here's a quote from one of our LEADERS of all people: "I like black people in Africa, just not the ones in America." Wow.
Tolerance is a virtue, girl. Be virtuous.
ReplyDeleteI would never be able to stop saying oh my god. I say it aaaall the time! It's weird that they won't say the lord's name in vein but they're say other awkward things...I like what you said to that guy about being a church goer. Brings the mayjah LOLz.
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