The Hungarian Padthai

 I haven't been writing for a long time. It was a lot to write about but I haven't got the time or motivation to sit down and word all it out. But stuff happened, and so did changes; and I hope I did most things right and adapted well to them. I lost a couple of friends (will share in a moment how), and also I gained a couple of new ones, or with some of my closed-knit contacts we are not that closed-knit anymore (and I would lie if I told that it didn't hurt). But today I wasn't going to write about the emotional changes in me, just about the circumstances and how I coped with them. Just be patient, this emotional roller-coaster will make sense to you, too, dear Reader. :-)  Somewhere in KrungThep Bridge. :-) Okay, here are the things that happened to me since April:  1. I resigned from my old school and accepted another position in Bangkok.  2. I moved houses.  3. I got inspired by my new, wonderful colleagues.  4. I started a lot of interesting workshops...

 I'm a visual learner. I can't master a language if I don't know its alphabet. I need to read it first and then hear it, so I decided that before I pick up more and other than the initial sawadikaa or kapunkaa  (Hello and Thank you, respectively), I need to learn the alphabet. That's why it took so little time for me to speak Norwegian or Spanish: I literally saw all the signs everywhere and it was really easy to figure out what means what. Also, as K. pointed out, all those languages I was familiar with are relatives and part of the Indoeuropean language family, whereas Thai couldn't be much further from them, even if it wanted to. Therefore, those common roots of words (except for some refreshing familiar words, like coffee!) (which I recognized on a sign today, yay!), don't help me either. It's something completely, utterly, totally different and even after 3 months, I feel completely lost. Also, give it to the fact that I have absolutely no contact with ...