so some updates here. just so that everyone is aware, the previous two posts have been written in japanese, so if you don't have japanese language kit installed onto your computer you probably got a jarble or boxes instead of letters... thanks for my friend who kindly notified us about it. ;)
1) the food here is AWESOME. despite our original intent to be careful of what we eat to avoid GI problems, yumi has broken all the rules and have been drinking water with ice, frequenting "fish balls" on a stick from a street vendor, and adding spices in everything she eats. luckily, no serious stomach problems (knock-on-wood...) yet... more on fish balls: there are two kinds you can get - ones that are very much reminiscent of japanese "kamaboko" which are my favorite, and the others that are like japanese "surimi dango" which are little more fishy and i like less. regardless, you can get them with this sweet-and-sour sauce sort of like the sauce "drunken fish" (from a Thai restaurant in providence) come in, which is scrumptous.
2) the town of mae sot is an interesting place. we are thousands of miles away and yet it is a hub of americans. including "greg" from CSI who is visiting different migrant/refugee communities with an American organization that supports Burmese freedom. he left his head-shot picture with his autograph and a message: "be cool, stay in school" at one of the schools with which we work closely. among the young academic-activist-hippie-yuppie Americans are these ex-pats who probably goes off the map and becomes unreacheable by any mode of communication frequently. they are easily spotted because of their scruffy aloha-type-shirt and the natural ability to blend in the crowd of short, dark-haired, Asian people.
3) and the streets are filled with stray dogs, mountain dogs, little dogs, big dogs, expensive dogs, tame dogs.... the list goes on. they just rule the streets and things have been especially bad lately. a lot of them have been chasing each other, fighting, and barking ceaselessly. today, we saw one mount another one and made us realize that all this fuss has been because they were in heat!
4) we have a fouth roommate named lola, a giant gecko with red patterns (about a size of my foot or longer) who likes to come out at night and scare us. for the longest time, we thought she was stuck in the kitchen and felt some sympathy, but yumi believes that she actually enjoys living here because there are lots of other little geckos which i'm convinced that lola likes to chomp on. the little geckos are super adorable. they chase bugs on the ceiling or on the wall, and lift their heads and seach their peripherals. very cute. UNTIL today one of them caught a good sized beetle and it was obviously too big for this little guy's jaw. so he decides to bang the poor bug on the ceiling while it's caught in the mouth to kill it so that it won't wiggle so much. only, he used his force too much - he ended up throwing the bug onto yumi's head.
5) and the unidentifiable noise outside on our tin overhang by the front door... it is creepy. it sounds like an animal's claw, but not all of us agree. yumi thinks it's a cat or a monkey. andy thinks it's a dog. annie thinks it's a dead body.... whatever it is, it always happens at night, passed 9pm, without any signs. just a series of big bangs and thumps.
regardless, our lives in mae sot continues...
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