1) I can watch bats flying while I do the evening dishes (or while we eat dinner, depending on how late I am at getting tea ready). This is not as creepy as it sounds. They're actually quite cool.
2) I can watch fireflies in the evening. These little creatures are absolutely awesome and I'm so glad that I will not have had the misfortune of living my life without ever having seen a firefly. They are as beautiful as I could have imagined them to be. It's amazing! How can a little bug produce so much light?
3) I can send my children to school with peanut butter sandwiches. Sorry all of you out there who suffer from peanut allergies, but it is quite freeing to not have to worry about what I am or am not allowed to put in a sandwich.
4) I can glue a stamp on a letter. I went to the post office recently - this place is fantastic! You can get so used to that push for everything to be new, polished, glamorous. This post office is so positively antique it's delightful. It is a long building where the workfloor is separated from the customer area by a long wooden bench, with vertical metal bars between the postal worker and the customer. The ceilings are high and the floors are wooden. Behind the bars I watched a postal worker gluing air mail labels onto a pile of envelopes. Further back some men were grappling with a large parcel. A few administrators sat at an assortment of desks at the back, writing in their books. The lady serving me weighed my envelope on an electronic scale, but there was also a non-electronic scale sitting nearby, adding to the timeless charm. Near the door was a desk for addressing envelopes and adding stamps. Sitting on the desk was an old gluepot and a brush, for the sticking of stamps. The gluepot and the desk that it sat on bore the resinous testament to thousands of letters sent. I was very disappointed when Prince said that it was more usual to just lick the stamp to stick it on. I was so looking forward to using that glue pot. (By the way, if you are surprised by my enthusiasm for the post office, don't get me started on the lawyer's offices!)
5) I can eat bananas and mangoes that have been grown in my very own yard. Okay, okay, so I don't actually like bananas but it's the principle of the thing. As for mangoes, I never thought I liked them - horrid, slimy fruit - but since eating them here I have discovered what everyone else already seemed to know, that they are, in fact, quite delicious. I have also acquired a liking for papaya, with a little lime juice of course.
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lol!! So many of these sound like delicacies that I would love to experience. The annoyance of having to decide what to put in your kids lunch box is true (though I do understand the seriousness of allergies).
Papaya and mangoes are only truly delicious in countries where they are truly meant to grow. None of the fruit tastes as good here as it does in Thailand...prob why you now like Mangoes!
Unfortunately when I'm cooking dinner I'm still looking at the back yard, or tiles on the splash back. Maybe one day I'll be looking out at Kilimanjaro Mountain!!
Bless ya's, Erin.
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