tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35635198107682918242024-03-04T20:47:20.637-08:00YoungSlugMy name is Amberly Young. I graduated from UCSC; our mascot is the banana slug. Hence, YoungSlug!Amberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03898192016326706097noreply@blogger.comBlogger301125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563519810768291824.post-44465710611335747362012-12-26T17:39:00.004-08:002012-12-26T17:39:48.216-08:00New WebsiteHi family and friends,<br />
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Love AmberAmberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03898192016326706097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563519810768291824.post-50381776086020679052012-11-30T23:13:00.000-08:002013-02-19T23:14:16.890-08:00Massage School<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
In June of 2012 I did a 12-day Thai Massage School through the Sunshine Network. I heard about it from friends I met at <a href="http://youngslug.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/hariharalaya.html">Hariharalaya</a>, the retreat in Cambodia, who raved about this <a href="http://www.thaiyogamassage.infothai.com/coursesvillage.html">Massage School</a> in Northern Thailand. As soon as I heard their reviews, I knew I had to go! </div>
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The classes were held outside on this amazing platform. There were 9 of us students, and we all became good friends.</div>
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Sveta from Russia is working on Mickey from Chile</div>
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An all-vegan diet and accommodation in a small shared cabin was included. This is my good friend Yumi, who I also visited in <a href="http://youngslug.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/visiting-yumi-in-kuala-lumpur.html">Kuala Lumpur</a>.</div>
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Enjoying coffee at Starbucks, AKA a neighbor's front porch</div>
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After Taipei, I flew to Bali, Indonesia to meet up with my boyfriend James. We spent the first few days in Kuta, which is a horrible, horrible place, filled mostly with drunken Australians on a perpetual spring break... I didn't take out my camera at all there, I was so annoyed with it all.</div>
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So we rented a motorbike for 20 days - $2 per day! - and set out to loop around the island. For a few days we wandered up the east coast, staying at guesthouses, eating at roadside warungs (restaraunts.) </div>
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A few days into our trip I received an email (we checked every few days at internet cafes, $1 per hour) from a guy named Aaron who asked if we wanted to volunteer teaching English at an after-school program. He reached us through the website helpx.net, which we have been using for the past year to find places to volunteer in exchange for room and board.</div>
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We had nothing else to do, so we rode the motorbike to Tianyar, on the north coast of Bali, to meet Aaron and volunteer for the program. </div>
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This is a girl who lived in our neighborhood. We lived with Aaron and his wife Lindsey, an American couple who moved to Bali to start a cashew factory.</div>
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In addition to volunteering at the after-school program, James and I helped Aaron write the content for his cashew website. I went to the factory several times to interview the ladies and see all parts of the cashew process. I'll show you the link once he's put up what we wrote.</div>
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While I was in Taiwan, a typhoon was supposed to bash the east coast! Luckily at the last minute the typhoon veered towards the ocean, and I was able to fulfill one of my Asia trip goals: go on a multi-day solo motorbike trip.<br />
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The motorbike cost about $10/day, which is pretty expensive for Asia. But totally worth it. Some require an international drivers licence, but if you ask around at different places, you'll find someone who'll rent to you.</div>
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I took the train to Yilan and spent the night there at a hostel that reminded me of a prison or hospital, so I only stayed there for one night. I woke up early the next day and took the train towards Hualien, but decided to get off at Taroko National Park, a 'place of interest' in my little brochure that I had picked up from the tourist office in Taipei. With my backpack (only 9kg!) I took the tourist bus into the park, and walked for about three hours, admiring the grandeur, and caught the bus to Hualien.</div>
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I had the opportunity to visit Taiwan, thanks to Tessa! Her parents were born there and her grandparents live in Taipei, so growing up she would visit them every summer. Her family has an apartment in the city that Tessa and I stayed at. I never would have thought to visit Taiwan, but it was honestly one of my favorite places in Asia.</div>
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I took these pictures from a pedestrian footbridge over this busy intersection. There's always lots of traffic, but Taipei has a very user-friendly underground MRT system; even me, who can't speak a smidgen of Chinese, could take the MRT alone no problem.</div>
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The 101 Tower, which used to be the tallest building in the world. Tessa's family's apartment was just 3 blocks away from it. We could walk to its huge air-conditioned underground mall from her place.</div>
Amberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03898192016326706097noreply@blogger.com72tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563519810768291824.post-15770373295799260212012-09-14T07:24:00.000-07:002012-09-14T06:46:45.917-07:00Visiting Yumi in Kuala Lumpur<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On my way from Ho Chih Minh City, Vietnam to Taipei, Taiwan, I had a layover in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I decided to stay for 5 days so I could visit my friend Yumi, who I met in Thailand, and see the city!</div>
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This is the view from her apartment window. You can see the Patronus Twin Towers on the left and the KL Tower on the right.</div>
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Yumi is a yoga teacher at an ashram in India. She comes to Kuala Lumpur to visit her parents, who own the apartment. She's setting up the camera on top of the TV to take a picture of us.</div>
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Yumi and her parents were great hosts. Thanks so much for having us! </div>
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A traditional Japanese breakfast: rice with miso soup and a communal salad/omelette plate. Yummy!</div>
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Hoi An, Vietnam, where every other shop is a tailor shop.</div>
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This one is named after my sister.</div>
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On my last day in Hoi An, I woke up at 5 to see what the early morning market was like without all the tourists.</div>
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The elementary school</div>
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Unopened tailor shops</div>
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Tessa, Nico, and I got off the tourist trail in Bac Ca, Vietnam, a small town about 3 hours by bus from Sapa. We rented motorbikes for 2 days and drove around the mountains. Most of the locals we encountered seemed surprised but happy to see us.</div>
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I split from Nico and Tessa for a few days to go on a rock climbing trip on Catba Island, its famous here! </div>
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This girl was so sassy. I asked her if I could take her picture, and then afterwords she said, "Now you buy from me!" Instead I tried to get her to play a game...</div>
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All you need is a coin, and you get the kids to guess which hand you're hiding it in, no language required. It's a trick my dad taught me.</div>
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Kids playing at the waterfall.</div>
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Rice fields</div>
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Nico and Tessa, my travel buddies through Vietnam!</div>
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View from our hotel window! Only $12 per night for all of us!</div>
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Early morning by the window</div>
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On our hike to the village. Sapa is extremely touristy but still a fun place to walk around.</div>
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After our 2-week stint in Cambodia, we stopped in Bangkok again before heading to Chiang Mai. Here are some photos from Chinatown!</div>
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There are thousands of extremely poor people in Cambodia who live in floating villages along Tonle Sap lake - the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. I am one of the guilty tourists who paid $20 to see the poor people in their natural habitat. </div>
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There's a floating school (with a basketball court!), floating stores and restaurants, and places where they meet to play cards. Most of them have electricity on their boats and it seemed to me like almost all of them had cell phones.</div>
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From my limited persective (I only was there for about an hour), their lives seem very difficult and their living conditions squalid (they drink from and defacate in the same river). In a lot of ways, though, I'm sure they are wiser and know more about a kind of simple, relaxed happiness that is a mystery to my fast-paced, westernized perspective.</div>
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I'm ashamed to admit that this place is a tourist destination. You take a taxi here from Siem Riep and pay $20 to take a boat around the village. I didn't want to go, but the family from Singapore we explored the temples with were going, so Tessa and I decided to go with them. Its a sick kind of voyeurism, and I felt very uncomfortable about it, peering into these peoples houses and lives while they go about their business. On the other hand, hopefully the people here are benefitting from the money that we spent. But either way I'll never really know.</div>
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This girl and her mother approached us asking for $1 for a picture. At the time I had this urge to look away, keep my hands in my pockets, and ignore her - but the Singaporean family said that we had to give, there was no other choice. So I gave her $1. We all did. Looking back I should have trusted my instincts, because now I realize that giving ANYTHING to any begging child, whether it be money or toys, no matter how desperate they look, is just encouraging them to stay on the streets.</div>
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The next day I talked to a 30-something lady named Renee, traveling alone, who came to the floating village by herself very early in the morning when she was one of the only tourists. She got off the boat at every possible spot, talked to the locals, and came away from her morning with a good attitude. "These people know something I dont," she told me. Isn't it strange how two people can go to the same place but have completely different ideas about it?</div>
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It's been about 2 months since I've seen this. Since then, I've lived in a shack in Way Naam Rin, a tiny Lahu village in rural northern Thailand. I've driven a motorbike around the highlands of Vietnam, close to the border of China, where people work in the rice fields all day. I've seen a bit more of the poverty in Southeast Asia, so now as I look at these pictures and remember my experience, its easier to process. My memories are not clouded by the intense emotional response I initially had.</div>
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I agree with her that I am more privileged than these people. I had a very comfortable and clean childhood surrounded by family and friends who love me. But despite the difference in money and cleanliness, I have no idea how happy any of these people are. And until I learn Khmer and gather up the courage to talk to these people and live their life beside them, I'll never know.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A few days ago Sharon and Rona (my two new Israeli friends) and I were at a cafe when we were joined by a fellow hippie from Hariharalaya, the yoga and meditation retreat we were staying at. Our hippie friend had brought along his 4 Cambodian friends, and we learned that one of them taught at a free English school in the evenings. We asked if we could come volunteer just for the day, and of course he said yes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So today we rode our bikes 10 minutes down the red dirt road to the school, a small outdoor room with wooden desks, a dirt floor, and a whiteboard. All the kids were at different levels, so I suggested that the teacher split them into groups. I had the group of 'best' speakers, six girls and boys ages 10-15, each armed witha notebook and pencil. Even though I didn't have anything planned it went very well - it was fun to make it up on the spot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">First I had them introduce themselves and I asked them questions about their daily routine to gauge their levels. (All of them ate rice soup with dried fish for breakfast.) Next I had them choose an animal they like - tiger, monkey, ant, etcetera. They wrote it in their notebook (I helped with spelling) and then they stood up and taught the rest of the group how to spell the name of their animal. I didn't even ask them to stand up when they were 'teaching' - they just did! I used that as a jumping off point for the rest of the lesson - each student thought of three adjectives to describe their animal and then taught those words to the rest of the group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">These kids are so enthusiastic about learning english. They are all very well behaved and had great manners; in fact I think they are the most polite kids I've ever worked with. They are all extremely poor and run around barefoot selling postcards to tourists all day before and after school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Their teacher works as a temple tourguide, making about $20 per day leading tourists around the temples. Many of the Cambodian people I met seem to be studying a foreign language so they can become a tourguide. When I was exploring the temples I overheard Cambodian guides speaking Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Italian, French, and Spanish. I also talked to a construction worker whose english is pretty good but not quite good enough to be a tourguide; he makes about $40 PER MONTH working full time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just 40 years ago, before the horrific violence of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot (I just read "First They Killed My Father," an autobiogrpahy about a girl who survived the genocide) these peoples lives had very little to do with money. They mostly grew their own food and traded with their neighbors for everything they needed. Now their lives are much more centered around making money, buying food for their family, an upgrade for their motorbike, or a new cell phone - almost everyone has a cell phone, even if they live in a dirt shack with no toilet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I learned so much in my three weeks in Cambodia, and sincerely hope to return again someday to stay for a longer time to see the rest of the country. The people are so warm and friendly, and there is so much fascinating history. It's a great place to visit to volunteer for an NGO, and there is a large community of expatriots who are usually happy to chat about the projects they're working on. I'd reccommend Siem Reap, Cambodia to anyone planning to travel in South East Asia. It's definitly been a highlight of my trip so far!</span></div>
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Even though I had already been to the Angkor temples three times before, I decided to go again with my new Israeli friends Rona and Sharon We woke up at 4am to get there for the sunrise and stayed all day until about 6pm. I could go back ten more times and still not be bored; its that kind of a place. There are hundreds of temples to see and explore. Each time, depending on the people I was with, or when I was by myself with a $1 rental bike, I had a completely unique experience.</div>
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Sunset time at Angkor Wat one last time... hope to be back someday!</div>Amberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03898192016326706097noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563519810768291824.post-85633917316177208552012-07-08T00:04:00.000-07:002012-07-09T09:55:45.809-07:00Hariharalaya<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Everything is so green. To get to our first stop we had a 45-minute hike through lush rainforest.</div>
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Our next stop: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banteay_Srei">Bantey Srei</a>, which is dedicated to Shiva. It was built in the 10th century from red sandstone.</div>
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This is how most Cambodians get around.</div>
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Maybe her bike has a flat tire.</div>Amberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03898192016326706097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563519810768291824.post-26854690282848006482012-07-07T22:33:00.000-07:002012-07-07T22:33:07.572-07:00Cambodian BarbequeOne afternoon Tessa and I were looking at a place for lunch when we stumbled across the Peace Cafe, which has delicious smoothies and vegetarian food. There I met Noung, a local who gives private Khmer lessons for $2/hour. We became friends and she showed me and Tessa some local restaurants, including this Cambodian Barbecue, where you cook the food yourself right at your table.<br />
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Sitting next to Tessa is Jana, a German girl who is volunteering at an orphanage in Siem Riep, and one of her friends. The food was delicious!</div>
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Also, someone I knew from college is teaching english with the Peace Corp in Indonesia, and he's keeping a blog, if you want to see it: <a href="http://mattinindo.wordpress.com/" style="background-color: white;">http://mattinindo.wordpress.com/</a>Amberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03898192016326706097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563519810768291824.post-27134038840483885472012-06-27T00:53:00.001-07:002012-06-27T00:53:08.014-07:00Angkor Wat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Tessa and I opted for a three-day pass to the world famous Angkor Temples. Before we headed to the temples, we visited the Angkor National Museum and got some background information about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Empire">Khmer's </a>and their various kings throughout their 600-year domination of Southeast Asia. Their best king was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayavarman_VII">Jayavarman VII</a> in the 12th century, who built many of the temples (there's dozens of them!) and also created hospitals, universities, and roads that are still the basis for modern Cambodian roads today.</div>
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At the museum, we were lucky to meet Kiel and Tammy Ongg, a really nice couple from Singapore, visiting the temples with their 10-year-old son Viv. Tessa was talking with them in Chinese and I was making shadow puppets with Viv, and they invited us to tour the temples with them the following day. Kiel had been there before and knew his way around, a big bonus for us who had no idea where to go first!</div>
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Inside they Bayon temple, famous for the faces</div>
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Somehow Viv snuck into all of our pictures. This is Angkor Watt, the most famous temple there!</div>
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Many of the temples have these <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsara">apsaras</a>, beautiful female spirits from Hindu and Buddhist mythologies. </div>
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This is in Angkor Wat; its a huge relief depicting King Jayavarman VII's defeat of the Thai invaders. Its so well-preserved and amazing to look at, but the pictures really don't do it justice.</div>
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You're not supposed to touch, but people do anyway, and that's what makes it shiny.</div>
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This is in the very center of Angkor Wat, with the whole family and Tessa! I'm taking the picture.</div>
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View from up top, where only high priests were allowed... Now anyone can go up, as long as you are covering your arms and shoulders and not wearing a mini-skirt.</div>
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So concludes our first day touring the temples... two more to go!</div>Amberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03898192016326706097noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563519810768291824.post-230768892240246372012-06-26T03:18:00.000-07:002012-06-26T03:18:07.356-07:00With Darina<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Their maid from Burma, super nice lady! She took the picture of all of us. Didn't she do a nice job?<br />
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Inside these banana leaves is something delicious. Maybe a jello-ey dessert, or maybe some kind of fish. </div>
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Another view from her roof. She lives in a really interesting neighborhood.</div>
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Here are some pictures from Ayuthaya, the old capital of Thailand.</div>
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We took a boat trip around the city, which is surrounded on all sides by moats. The boat drops you off at different temples and you have 20 minutes to walk around.<br />
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A cool room in the back of one of the temples</div>
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There are Buddhist and Hindu gods at most of the temples.</div>
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I think this guy worked here... </div>
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Picture is a little blurry, but you can see the motorcyclists taking the ferry across the river. Cool eh?</div>
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Tchu descends the stairs</div>
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Lots of Buddhas everywhere.</div>
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Even a Catholic Church! </div>
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Here's a temple from the Khmers, which is in the same style of the ones at Angkor Wat.</div>Amberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03898192016326706097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563519810768291824.post-45981575460096879352012-06-23T07:55:00.000-07:002012-10-15T00:50:58.003-07:00Language Barriers<br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Thai locals give me dirty looks as I clomp down the Bangkok railway platform. I'm wearing my camera draped around my neck and haven't put it away yet - I feel as though everyone is watching me, planning the perfect moment to steal it. My shirt clings to my back in the sticky heat. I'm travelling with my Taiwanese friend Tessa, and as she can pass for Thai, the locals smile at her and try to talk to her in Thai. We sit on the dirty ground at Platform 8 and start chatting with two English backpackers waiting for the train. Though we share the same language, we live worlds apart from these girls, who are reading glossy, gossipy magazines and just coming from a resort in the south.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The train arrives with a screech, and what was previously a calm collection of commuters is now a frenzied mob - everyone rushes to the creaky doors, pushing through the crowd. We backpackers hang back hesitatingly, and then realizing what is happening begin to join the rush, fighting our way for a place to sit down. Luckily Tessa and I are able to claim a couple of the hard plastic seats which will be our home for the next 6 hours.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The train ride from Bangkok to Aranyaprathet only costs 45 baht each, a little more than a dollar, and I am beginning to see why. After lifting our packs into the overhead rack, we settle in for what we know will not be a comfortable journey - the noise from the train rattling against the rails is almost too loud to talk, and much too obnoxious for me to sleep. Some overhead fans spin haphazardly, but the one next to us is broken.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A few stops in, it begins to get crowded - many people are standing and I am grateful for our seats. A group of young Thai school girls come on the train but they all are forced to stand. When an old man sitting across from me limps off the train with his basket of dried fish, one of the girls from the schoolgirl group takes his place and gives me a friendly smile. I want to talk to her and learn her story, but the noise from the train is so loud and she has just opened a book. I get out my phrasebook (from a free shelf in Chiang Mai) and start practicing the basics: "What is your name? Kuhn cheu a rei?" "How old are</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you?" "Cun a you ta rei?" "Nice to meet you." "Sa bai de kai!"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When she puts her book down I try my luck, and ask her what her name is. Miraculously she understands my pathetic accent, and tells me her name is Nut. I ask her if she speaks English, and she smiles apologetically and says, "A little!"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using a combination of my phrasebook, gesturing, and english, I start to interview her. She corrects my Thai and I can practice the phrases over and over, and luckily she doesn't seem too annoyed. I learn that Nut is 16 and lives in Prachin Buri where she goes to high school. On the weekend she rides the train for 2 hours to Bangkok to go to another school. She likes art, photography, and movies but not reading. (The phrasebook is very limiting!) I show her my drawings of Tessa (now engrossed reading her kindle) and Nut seems to like them. She smiles a lot and is very encouraging, even when I need to repeat a phrase 5 times before I say it right.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we reach her stop, she gives me a genuine smile and wishes me luck.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two hours into our trip, we still see the outskirts of the city. Children kneel in allyways, playing in the shadows of tin roofed shantytowns. Dogs sleep in the corners, laundry hangs in every doorway. I whisper my new Thai phrases over and over, afraid that I will forget the pronunciation and go back to sounding like a typical American tourist.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Merchants wander up and down the aisles of the train, selling cool soft drinks, bags of sticky rice with curry, steamed bamboo, a green jello-ey candy, and tiny purple eggplants. Tessa and I had come prepared with </span></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a miniature bunch of bananas</span></b><b style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and bags of pad thai wrapped in paper. I eat with chopsticks, and miraculously don't spill all over my shirt.</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We stop somewhere and a Thai couple takes the seats across from us. The woman is tall and thin and has a face like a model, and greets my curious eye with a beaming smile. She's wearing a striped yellow and pink shirt and jeans - how anyone can wear jeans in this heat is beyond me.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her boyfriend is also very handsome, skinny with ragged shaggy hair and a short beard.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The woman emanates friendliness, she smiles at me every time we make eye contact, so I decide I'll try practicing my Thai again. "Sa bai de reu? (How are you?)" I ask. She's fine. It turns out she knows a little English, is a student in Bangkok, of what I'll never know. She lives in the city but is headed to Aranyaprathet to visit her boyfriend's parents. She asks me where I'm from, which is one of the first times a Thai person has ever asked me that. Usually they will ask Tessa, who is Taiwanese and easily passes for a Thai person.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After a few minutes of stunted conversation, she tells me apologetically she is going to go to sleep. She cuddles into her boyfriends bony shoulder and closes her eyes.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I eat a few bananas and look out the window - it's been about 5 hours now, and now the scenery is farmland, a green expanse of fields and rainforest on all sides. For a split second I see 4 boys standing in a field, waving and grinning at the passing train.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The couple moves to another empty seat - it's less crowded now. By now Tessa has finished her book and is sleeping sitting up, neck supported by a blown-up pillow that is slowly losing air. She sways as she sleeps, and she leans to one side, her neck stretching until it is almost at a 90-degree-angle. I'm getting really concerned for her - it looks like her neck is going to snap! Suddenly she almost falls out of her seat - YAAH! - but she wakes up and catches herself before landing on the floor. I trade seats with her so she can lean on the window.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Only 1 hour left. A woman in jeans and an orange shirt takes the seat across from us. Like the other two ladies I've talked to, she meets my gaze with a big friendly smile and I have no reservations about trying to start a conversation with her.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Suay jung (that's pretty)," I say, pointing at her yellow gemstone ring.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then something miraculous happens. She assumes I know Thai and starts talking to me! I assume she's telling me all about her ring: - where she bought it, maybe, or what kind of a stone it is or what is represents. I'm honored to have someone talk to me in Thai, which has never happened to me before - it happens to Tessa all of the time. I admit to her that I don't understand, and it turns out she barely knows any English. One more time I resort to my phrasebook and ask her a few questions - she is a farmer who works with cows, and she has two kids</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">age 3 and 10. When she leaves she shakes my hand and says "Goodbye."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even though we've been sitting on an uncomfortable train for 6 hours, when we finally arrive in Aranyaprathet I feel great. These ladies were so nice to me despite my ignorance of their language.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Before this experience, the only Thai people I had talked to extensively were Tessa's friends who had gone to college in the USA. Shopkeepers and rickshaw drivers usually ignored me, mocked me, or treated me like a walking wallet. (Some rickshaw drivers seem genuine but then try to overcharge you or tell you the hostels are really far away when they're actually right across the street.) I formed judgments about Thai people based on my limited experience with the street vendors in touristy places, who see so many tourists that they have no time to think of us as individuals.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The disparity between how Tessa and I treated is based less on our skin color but more on the language barrier. Her appearance makes people assume she can speak Thai, so people want to talk to her. But I am white, and often am the only white person around, so people see me and assume they won't be able to communicate with me and thus try to rip me off.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While I'm backpacking around Southeast Asia for the next few months, I will never truly understand any of the places I visit. I'll only have a glimpse of them from an outsider's point of view. Sure, there will be moments when I feel like I'm fitting in, like when I played volleyball with a hunky group of shirtless Thai men in Kanchanaburi. When I asked to play, they included me in an instant. But even then, I was clueless as to what was going on - the rules were slightly different, they made jokes that I didn't understand. Unless I can learn the local language, I will always be looking at the country from behind glass.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If I learned Thai, I think that I would be very happy to live in Thailand. I could make friends with the locals, barter at markets, and maybe teach English somewhere. Before I talked to the women on the train I had essentially ruled it out as a place to live because of the unfriendliness of the people. I'm realizing now that the barrier is not based on skin color but on language. You can't really get to the heart of a place unless you can know and communicate with its people.</span></b></div>
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