Moments here are passing so quickly, I find myself wanting to find someway to hold on to them longer, slow the blur of daily life down. Here is a list of some of my favorite things, the stuff I want to remember:
- The sound of students yelling "good morning teacher” on my walk to school.
- The burn of chili’s that only seems to get worse when you drink water.
- The way it feels when a student braids my hair.
- The student who fills in answers they don’t know on the test with “I love teacher Kate”.
- The joy of cooling powder.
- The way the "school bus" (really its just a old white pickup with a cage around the back) sounds coming down the road, I can pick it out from a mile away.
- The way my roommate Don says “WOW”! And the facial expression that goes along with it.
- Dancing with my students and having them beg me to “Sing a song”.
- The way the mountains of Laos look from across the Mekong on a clear day.
- All my dog friends who I have tamed with kindness and now follow me to and from school.
- Watching water buffalo go for a swim in the pond behind my house.
- Cheap, delicious, amazing fruit!
- Shy smiles from the villagers when I wander in town for the weekly market.
- The celebrity status of being a “farang” (foreigner) in Northeast Thailand.
- The geckos in my room that eat all the bugs that want to eat me.
- The strange, strange calls of the giant Tuki geckos looking for love.
- Isan folk music…its really catchy.
- Thai dancing, I wish my fingers could bend so gracefully.
- Homemade Tom Yum Kung (spicy shrimp soup) with coconut milk .
- Vibrant color everywhere.
- The ghost houses outside of people houses...gotta give those spirits a place to live.
- Rice fields lined with eucalyptus trees.
- Families of four on one small motor bike.
- Dried bananas coated in honey.
- Sticky rice
- The simplicity of life here.
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