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Published: July 18th 2011
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the great wall
This is our little bench and part of the wall that protects our house. Yeah its pink but before it was booger. It is so pretty now! What a nice weekend. I legitemately did nothing productive except .. nope WAIT I cleaned the spirit house. Oh you guys probably don't know what a spirit house is. Well let me tell you.
Every single building here has a spirit house, for the spirits that lived in the area of the building before it was made. These houses are decorative you might say and stand on podiums in the yard of the house.
The people make offerings to the spirits every day- light inscents, offer food, drinks, water and say prayers for the spirits. They do this out of respect for everything that was living in that space before.
And every time the building gets an extension and becomes bigger, so does the spirit house.
It is actually quite beautiful to see the respect between humans and the environment here.
That is one thing I really love: like you experience the circle of life here first hand, and that is why I don't feel bad about eating chicken liver, and cow parts and blah blah blah because you know the cow comes from your neighbor and you see the neighbor taking care of the cows and letting them roam free.
spirit house
One of the two spirit houses where cleaning has not yet began. In Canada we go to the grocery store and buy a piece of chicken that is DEFINITELY NOT suppose to be the same size as my thigh... but it is and you vuy it anyway and think that that's normal.. but it's really kind of messed up the way we do things back home.. no offense blog stalkers.
So Barbara and I spent a good part of the afternoon cleaning out Spirit House.. because honestly it looked terrible- the paint was all cracked with crusty snails all over and old inscents and old offerings that looked more like cow dung than anything.
Let me tell you though these spirit houses are not easy to lift. They are made of like rock solid concrete and like Arnold Schwarzenegger's biceps. barbara and I had quite the difficulty.
The spirit house is still not entirely clean. I imagine it will take another good afternoon of cleaning and then maybe it we can reassemble it. Im uploadings some pictures..
Barbara and I started doing this because the house was undergoing renovations. The owner had the front wall painted and fixed our greasy old bath room that was a serious breeding ground for mosquitoes..
spirit base
other parts of the spirit house, this is the platform. THere is a red house that goes on this and we took it off to clean the base that multiply very quickly..
Anyway yesterday night, Natasha Barbara and I went to a restaurant called Chicago house. It is a sushi karaoke place with UNREAL food. The man that owns the place was born in Mae Sot, but moved to Chicago for like 30 years or something, and his children were born there so his English is perfect. Like I said the food was really good, and the night turned out to be kind of wild.
First he peer pressured us into singer Karaoke: Barbara went first and then I sang Eye of the Tiger.. its a classic.
The table beside us of Thai people bought Barbara a beer after she went ( she was first) and then the owner of the resto comes to sit with us and chat.
He then tells us that Madonna ate at his resto in Chicago and told him he makes the best Pad Thai shes ever had and insists that we try it. So he has his workers make us a plate of Pad Thai.. and it was in fact AMAZING. Then He tells us that none other but CHUCK NORRIS ATE AT HIS RESTAURANT IN MAE SOT WHEN HE WAS
spirit house
the giant red, heavy rock solid spirit house that barbara and I took down to clean! people go inside this! IN THAILAND TRAINING!!! Obviously we did not believe him so he takes us to the bathroom.. the mens bathroom and shows us an autographed picture of Chuck Norris!! Couldn't believe it. ..actually Like real Chuck Norris lol.
THEN after lots of Karaoke we are all sitting together and we meet the man who owns the beautiful soccer stadium that I scored a goal at a couple weeks ago.
Opart ( resto owner) brings a plate of french fries out for us and keeps filling up our wine glasses, then asks us if we want whiskey or beer.. like? what the heck. But don't worry it wasn't creepy it was just hilarious.
Then the soccer pitch owner names Ben - his wife who was gorgeous with an amazing voice sings a song, and I ask Opart if he wants to dance. So we start slow dancing and I tell him hes got great skills and looks like a 25 year old hahahah. He had great hair, like tom cruise longer hair.
Anyway we stayed there until 1 am.. got there at like 9 pm.. it was ridiculous but so awesome!
We decided to go back once a week because
figurines
the peeps and figurines that go in and around the spirit houses we just had such a great time.
I mailed like 9 letters today, it was SO EXCITING!
send me your addressed so I can send you letters. Its super cheap and brings me joy!
No one will probably be interested in the next thing I share, but some of you might be surprised to hear that Louis and I have been dating for 6 months now.. who would of thought that he would be able to handle me this long hahaha. Life is full of surprises!
I was serious about myers briggs ps.. great thing to do.
Also spend 20 minutes on a cloudy day and just enjoy the clouds; bike ride to the lake and skip rocks off a doc, buy the random person in line behind you a sundae or a coffee and tell him it's his lucky day.
THROW YOUR ARMS in the air, jump around, smile like crazy and pretend like you just got the best news of your ENTIRE LIFE! Cause guess what, every day you wake up youre given another chance to do ANYTHING YOU WANT! THAT IS AMAZING NEWS!
Kathy
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