Amusing things here:
1. Grocery store in the diplomatic area with a cafe next door with the same owner. Foreign books at the cafe in all sorts of languages; left by customers perhaps. People can borrow (just get any book from the shelf), and just return them anytime. No issues whatsoever. It doesn't matter, and everyone's cool about it.
2. Bookworm -if you buy something here, you can sell it back for 1/3 the price. good english books are hard to come by, that's why people would just rather like it rotate in the city than leave the country. And it's so interesting to find a myriad of books of different eras. Haha.
3. Xe-om drivers - they remember me, and the places where I usually go. No more bargaining, same price all the time.
4. Market - everytime I go out, I say hello to the babies with their grandmothers in the alley. I pass by the pineapple lady and smile, say hello. Pass by the xeom drivers, say hello. Into the market, and say hello to the tomato man and the fruit lady. Fruit lady's always offering me the dragonfruit, which is Jack's favorite and not mine. I never buy that fruit, although I'd eat it if it's there. Haha.
5. Pharmacy and sari-sari stores across doi can -they know I can't speak the local language, so they're more helpful and accommodating. And they no longer mind me just hovering inside their stores looking hard for something. In other stores, people follow me around and keep on asking what I want. But when they know me already, they just let me be. Haha.
I feel like I'm part of a community, which I'd never felt before in a larger scale.
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