New Photos Can Be Found Here:
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I bought the best book at The Mall the other day. It's called, "Very Thai" and it explains all about these Very Thai things one may find in Thailand. For example, I've learned from it why exactly people sell and carry around wooden penises everywhere in this country.... (it freaked me out a little bit the first time I was shopping outside a temple and saw one right next to a mini Buddha statue...) Apparently they are a kind of goodluck charm. They make little boys wear these charms around their waist while swimming in the river, because they believe it will distract water demons from damaging the boys actual penis, or something like that. I've also learned from it that Thai's dislike reading because it is something a person does alone, and is therefore un-"sanook" (fun). Thai people, on average, read only 8 lines per day. It was also an American who standardized the Thai writing system, and many attempts have been made by different leaders throughout Thai history to simplify the written language (for example, to add grammar or spaces between words) have been rejected.... Which certainly doesn't make things any easier for me :S
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