Obamaaa

When we were in Bangkok two days after the election, every time someone asked us where we were from and we told them America, they immediately would say some variation of "Obamaaa! You like Obamaaa?" Last night when we were downtown for Loi Kratong, I saw this lantern with Obama's face on it! Since we keep writing about Loi Kratong, I might as well give some more details about that. It's a festival to honor Buddha and to give apologies to the river for polluting it all year long. People float lanterns into the sky and small banana-leaf rafts down the river as an act of letting go of all the bad things in life. There's one more day of the festival, so after that, things should return to normal, and I won't have to worry about firecrackers exploding in my face every time I walk down the street!

I'm enjoying the class so far. The best dialog yesterday was as follows:

A: My favorite drink is Mekong River Snake Whiskey. What's yours?
B: My favorite drink is _______.
A: Let's have a drink.
B: Sounds good!

We've been learning about some other basic warmups and activities. I hope we start learning the details of teaching grammar soon, but I think everything we've done so far will be useful. The whole final week of the course will be teaching practice, which is great!