I'm on U.S. soil! It definitely has been a bit of a culture shock being back, especially in California which has a quite different culture than I'm used to anyways.
My last two days in Bangkok, I had mixed emotions about leaving depending on how the day was going. One day was really dull without much to see, and the last day was a surprisingly fun adventure. I searched for the National Museum and asked a thai couple who were coincidentally going there and so they took me there and then insisted on being my "guides" to the museum despite their below-basic grasp of english. Luckily 4 months in Asia has made me fluent in "simple english" so I basically can figure out a person's grasp on the language and speak accordingly. Nook, Bum and I explored the museum and then they took me to a little known food market and then we went to a museum that they knew about that just opened a couple weeks ago.
Another funny incident was when I came into the museum, some school children all ran over to me and wanted me to take a survey about thailand for their english class, so as I was filling it out, they all pulled out their cameras and starting taking photos of me. Even though there's tons of tourists in bangkok, I guess it's still exciting to have a photo taken with "farang". Then as a small thank-you gift, they handed me a necklace with a skull and crossbones--interesting choice. I asked if it had any meaning, which evidentally it did not, they just thought I would somehow really want to wear skull crossbones. These types of surprise interactions are what I'm really going to miss!
It's also funny the thoughts that I find being back that still show my travel mindset, like seeing something on my toothbrush and thinking "Oh it's probably just a bunch of ants that attacked it again". Or looking next to the toliet for the bucket of water to flush it with. So it's been interesting coming back!
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