Category: Thai Rural Girl

Working Girl Apartment

For nearly eight months, I have been working in Bangkok. My apartment is on Sukhumvit Soi 71 near the Phra Khanong Skytrain Station. The rent is 2,200 baht a month ($70).

The front of the building is a barber shop.

Valentine’s Present

Last year, I got a MacBook Air for Valentine’s Day. I spend a lot of time learning to use it. I have spreadsheets on it for the cost of the Mini Mart goods and the money from the customers.

First Day of School

The school year begins in May. On the first day the students line up outside, then the teachers take them to their classrooms.

My daughter Eloise is on the left, smiling.

Local Market

I go to the market almost every day. It is on the way to my daughter’s school. I buy many kinds of vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage. For meat, pork and chicken. Also grapes and melon. Sometimes I go there to sell vegetables from my garden.

Street Food

This is near where I work. I eat there every evening. I usually have the barbecue pork with sticky rice. It costs 15 baht (47 cents).

My Neighborhood

Sukhumvit Soi 71. It is a quiet street.

(A) is the name of the store. The Thai words are shrimp, crab and steam(ed).

Local Restaurant

Sometimes I eat lunch here.

I like to have the seafood soup, squid and steamed rice!

Birthday

My daughter turned eleven this month. We had a special barbecue dinner with my sister’s family. But we could not eat the cake because we forgot the candles! We ate some of it two days later.

The Thai letters on the cake mean “Happy Birthday”.