Valentine's Day :(
Today's Valentines Day.
In Thailand Valentine's Day's all about showing your love for everybody, family and friends as well as boyfriends and girlfriends. It's not just for hopeless romantics like at home.
At school today the teacher doing the morning assembly lectured the kids about how Valentine's Day was about more than runing off to a cheap hotel to have sex with your girlfriend. I'm not sure the kids in P1 even know what sex is, but, I guess they do now. Thanks to the teacher, they probably think that it's something really, really bad that can only ever be done by teenage kids in the sleezier hotels in the town.
On Tuesdays I normally teach a couple of kids in the nearby town for an hour or so after school. It's a favour. As their mother is friends with my friend's mum, it would be really hard to say no to them. It wasn't something I was looking forward to doing at first, but now, I really, really enjoy it. It's great to teach bright kids, who love to speak and are really interested in learning. I say that I teach them but I don't really 'teach them anything. We normally just sit around for a bit playing games in English.
It's going to be really. really hard to say 'goodbye' to them next week. This Tuesday I was in Sakorn (piccies here...) so I taught them yesterday afternoon instead.
As soon as they saw me they all said 'Happy Valentine's Day...' and gave me a plastic rose. I got another today, from one of the teachers at a nearby school and a real one, yesterday evening. A pale pink rose, hacked off its stalk by one of my p6 kids who just happened to see me walk by...
It's strange... I've had more flowers this Valentine's Day than I have ever had at home. Whenever I've been in a relationship, my boyfriends have always known that I'm not the 'flower' type. Valentine's Days are normally spent chilling out at home, with a decent movie, good food and a bottle of wine or 3.
For me, Valentine's Day's not about flowers, cards, choccies or any of that. It's about being with someone you care about or, better than that, someone that you really love.
I love living in Thailand. I love the lifestyle here. I really love the life I'm leading at the moment, to the point where I tell almost everyone and anyone that I meet that I really don't want to go back home at the end of April.
But... much as I love being here, I think you need more than a cool lifestyle and and the opportunity to travel to feel really, really happy somewhere. You also need people you care about, and who care about you. Sure, I have great friends here but, the longer I'm here the more I realise that it's not enough. Pathetic, or vomit inducing as it may sound, you also need someone you love (and who loves you...) too.
And, the longer I'm here and still single, the more I know that the chances of finding someone that makes me feel that way here are pretty slim.
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Do you think there's no one that you can love and loves you out there in Thailand then?
Just the thought.....
Happy Valentine's Day anyhow.