notes on thailand

• hula hooping seems to be very popular right now. i'm waiting for skip it to make its thai debut.
• sweetened condensed milk is a regular and extremely popular condiment. you have an iced coffee? let's put some scm in it. you have a pancake (roti, which is really more crepe-like than pancake-like)? i bet it'd taste good with some scm. i see you have a mango there--what do you think about pouring some scm on it? 
• i still have 700+ students. this is normal.
  
• breakfast, lunch, and dinner can all be the same meal--some form of noodles and rice. there's no such thing as "breakfast food."
• robert pattinson is known as RPattz to my girls.
• slapstick comedy reigns supreme.
• the conversational equivalent of "hey, how are you?" is "hey, have you eaten yet?" the question literally translates to "have you had rice yet?"
• having a huge nose with a monstrous bridge is incredibly sexy. some of my students stare at my nose in awe and touch theirs with a bit of sadness. rumor has it thais don't like to wear sunglasses because they don't rest on their noses well.