Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Sa-Wa-Dee-Kah!

Or if Enrique said the same thing... Sa-Wa-Dee-Khrup! Which means, Hello or goodbye... It's a greeting we hear constantly! Men say "khrup"
at the end and women say "kah"... Same thing with "Thank you" which I would say... Kop-kum-ka and
Enrique would say kop-kum krap... Or something like that!!
I'm spelling these how they sound of course,
I've never seen them written down. I promised Mom a few days ago to share some of the words we'd learned, so there you go! Those are the two
we use every day. I'm typing from Enrique's blackberry whcih found the free wireless at the hotel, so this will be very brief so my thumbs
don't fall off. Phuket and the islands we've explored (or Ko - word for Island... Ko phi phi, etc) have been beautiful beyond words.
We have visited Ko Phi Phi, "James Bond Island" (where The Man with the Golden Gun" was filmed) and Ko Raya aka Ko Racha (my fav) today. We have
been snorkeling three times (twice today) and have spent more time in the ocean than on land I think. I wish I had an underwater camera to take pictures of the coral formations we've seen.
Amazing colors... Purples and oranges and bright blues, really incredible, like swimming in an aquarium. A really pychadelic aquarium. My thumbs now are about to fall off so that's it for now! We fly to cambodia tomorrow to see Ankor Wat (google it, I don't have time to go into it but I promise it is really neat)! Love you all! Xoxo!

1 comment:

karenswingle said...

Love the blog about language, Meg. Such interesting stuff. And the beaches, etc. look amazing! I have done a little research about Phu Ket and the islands - they seem magical. Enjoy Cambodia! We look forward to you being back in the good old USA !