Day 141- out with friends

Highlight: after church some of my friends and I decided to go shopping at the weekend market. the cab ride from church to the market was a true Thai experience. There were 6 of us and so we all pilled in on top of each other. 5 in the back and one up by the driver. Half way threw our trip the cab driver turns to carter (who is sitting in the front) and says “Is he American” pointing to the slightly smaller of the two guys squeezed in the back. When she told him he was the driver was in disbelief. “he is to skinny, Americans are not skinny. I have seen skinny girls but not skinny men. He is to skinny, are you sure he is American? Do they feed him? he needs to eat more. McDonalds, feed him McDonalds then he will get bigger. Or pizza you can get him a big pizza. He is two skinny, it is not hansom, he must eat more.” the cab driver went on and on with such disbelief. It would have been a completely inappropriate conversation to have if we were in America but this was Thailand and commenting on once wait or appearance in this way is appropriate.

Lowlight: latter that day Kristina and I were headed on the sky train to go meet some more people. we had been walking all day and our feet were killing us. So we decided that we really wanted a seat on the train and were going to try hard to get one. when we got on the train there were two open seats in front of us. One for her and one for me. Kristina sat down and as I approached the last empty seat I noticed  had a little blood stain on the seat. Evidently the last person to site there was a lady and it was her time of the month. I paused and thought for a second how gross that was and how I was only going one stop. But I only thought about all this with in that second and then it was back to the goal which was to get a seat. So I continued to site down with my weight skirt. The whole time I could not believe what I had just done. in just a few minuets we reached our stop and as we were getting off the train I looked back at our seats. A lady had sat down on Kristina seat and then noticed the dray blood stain on my seat and stared at it with discussed as 3 other woman gathered around to examine the seat. I know they all thought I had left the stain for who in there right mine would sit in such a seat. Evidently me.