A Bangkok Fairy Tale

Surprise!

Once upon a time there was a woman who moved half way across the world to teach for 6 months. She fell in love with Thailand and though perhaps she should stay another six months. After she made the decision she was starting to feel nervous about all the people she was missing and not seeing home in over a year. She was beginning to feel very homesick and wondering if perhaps she had made a mistake in deciding to stay longer.

When her birthday came around her roommate dragged her to a fancy Italian restaurant in downtown Bangkok. Her roommate took her to the back table in the restaurant where...Surprise! The woman’s father was sitting at the restaurant table. The restaurant started singing “Happy Birthday” and the woman held her father tight as everyone snapped photos. Her father had collaborated with her roommate for over a month setting the entire night up.  It was the best birthday ever.

And so they lived happily for the week, where the woman made her father eat grasshoppers and street food and the father rode motorcycle taxis, had beautiful suits made and spoiled his daughter with an actual bed and hotel slippers. And when he left the woman felt much more at peace about the staying longer part.

Making Dad go to the Beer Stand.

And so she returned from his beautiful hotel to the Sudan of Thailand more light hearted and ready for another six months of adventure.

The End

Epilogue: This new adventure time will also include a trip to India in October!!! Oh yeah, be jealous.