It was yet another session with the Thai students,me and my colleagues were much familiar with topics of discussions, launching of conversation and getting issues (personal,social and academic)on the table.So after we arrived the students urged us to grab lunch before we got into the discussion, Thai's like food alot so this was now almost customary "don't forget to eat or grab a snack"
This time i was fortunate to meet a rather interesting student Pooh,his English was really good and his conversation skills i would give a 10 because he always knew how to keep it going with more exciting topics as time went by. He told me particularly about a linguistics class he was taking and how they had to learn different tones for the different languages they studies and so i told him that it was similar to studying Thai as it is also a Tonal language and he said" Oh.. your right it is" and so we continued by pointing out how English is important in Global Transaction and communication.
The interaction never failed to create new friends and contacts, so as Pooh talked about how his dream state he wants to go to is New York, Ginnie who is one of our students is from New York and thus we indulged in discussing almost everything about New York and how it was similar to Bangkok, the museums just to name a few. He then asked me "Khun Chob Tam Arai Wayla Wan kah?" meaning what do you like to do in your free time, so i told him browsing,video games etc and he said Thai's don't go out very often on casual basis we only go out say for an occasion or on Sunday's when almost everyone is home. So i made a mental comparison of the different cultures including mine,and concluded that mine was very similar to the Thai culture and no matter how different people and their regional locations are, we potentially have factors that are similar and binding.
The lunch lasted for about half an hour or a little over that so we said our farewell's and proceeded to our various classes. I look forward to another lunch session hopefully on Tuesday till then
Sawas Dee Kah =)
Sounds like you have some interesting discussions with the students, and get to practice some Thai too. That's great!
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Thank you Ajan Jessica and luke,it was an interesting lunch and a good opportunity to practise my Thai.
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