Little things

Little things

So almost all of the bathrooms in my school don’t have toilet paper, soap, or paper towel. This isn’t out of the ordinary in Thailand as many public washrooms use a bum gun or (I’ve just encountered a few of these terrifying contraptions recently), toilets with built in jets with buttons on a panel on the side to control them. This means that most Thai’s don’t wash their hands after using the toilet, just sort of rinse. Most foreigners carry around tissues (and often soap) to wash and dry hands with. I’ve given up on the dry hands part but I still carry around soap with me. Today when I was washing my hands one of the foreign teachers was washing her hands as well and offered me a tissue. Without thinking I said “No thanks I can just do the dance” and proceeded to demonstrate the “dance” that one of the monitors at my circus camp tried to use as an ice breaker for the newbies when we ran out of paper towels one time. The dance involves raising your hands palms out, elbows bent so that they are directly in front of your shoulders, then moving them back and forth vigorously when moving your shoulders back and forth less vigorously and taking steps every two or three back and forths of your hands, bending your knees so that you are a bit lower to the ground the whole while. I only did this for a few seconds as I walked past her to the door but the look she gave me will stay in my memory for a long time. XD

3 thoughts on “Little things

  1. Daughter,

    I wasn’t clear on how the dance works, so I had your mother re-create it for me based on your description. It was everything I could have asked for and more, so thank you. Even from a great distance you bring me joy!

    Love always,
    Father

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