one of the things that I love about my thai sisters is how well I fit in with them. I am convinced that I was always a part of this family, but being on the other side of the world, I simply wasn't aware of it. just the other night, for example, pear was in the kitchen reading diligently from a french desserts cook-book (written in thai) explaining how to make some sort of chocolatey pastry puff. part of the recipe required a HUGE block of dark chocolate. needless to say, pim and I quickly became very excited about pear's baking skills and went into the kitchen to lend emotional support to her endeavor.
me: "pear, you really like to bake chocolate things don't you?"
pear: "yes."
pim: "and I really like to eat chocolate things!" (we are one and the same, pim and I.)
another common interest between pim and myself is our love of the thrilling card game phase 10. a favorite among the members of my american mom's side of the fam, phase 10 is frequently played at holidays like thanksgiving and christmas.
my mother, being the nurturing woman that she is, sent a package halfway around the world to thailand. "Kaitlin Wheeler" it said on the outside, but lest you assume that this meant it was for me, let me list the contents:
- maple syrup in a maple leaf shaped glass bottle (which my thai dad promptly mistook for liquor)
- maple candy
- a stuffed moose (which I named murray and pim lovingly adopted)
- lobster-shaped gummies (if it's not swedish or a fish, it shouldn't be a red gummy)
- phase 10
- paper snowflakes (the kind you fold up, cut out and hang all over your 5th grade classroom)
- three len libby's chocolate heart lollipops (if you aren't from maine and thus are unfamiliar with len libby's, you are missing out)
- a thank-you card
guess how many items were for me? 1/3 of one. (in truth, I did eat more of the maple candy than anyone else in the family, but that's only because pear didn't like that it was pure sugar and pim didn't like that the maple flavor took away from the pure sugar taste.) as it turns out, the chocolate hearts were not for me and some friends, as I wrongly assumed, they were for me and my two sisters. given that the other 7 items in the package were for my family, and mostly of the maine-themed variety, you can understand my mistake. anyway, long story made short: pim loves phase 10. she quickly understood the rules, has the same favorite phase as me (8), and always thinks that I am cheating, even if all I'm doing is discarding.
I think it's about dinner time, so I'll sign off for now.
peace out cub scouts! (for des and aaron)
kait :)
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