This is what a jet-lagged Thai exchange student looks like . . .
. . . right before we took her to my community band concert. She got to sing along with our National Anthem at the beginning of the concert! As always, in the trombone section, Marie’s head is obscured behind someone.
We met up with Pete, Katie, Molly and Annie at the concert. Molly wondered how a band could possibly play the Pizzicato Polka without stringed instruments. Indeed. The Milwaukeans were going to the waterpark in Eagan today on their way home from here.
Fahsai and I rode the city bus downtown to her school today to meet some of the teachers and her coordinator Kim. The bus ride is about twenty minutes and stops in St. Paul as close to her school as it leaves from our house (one block). St. Paul Prep is in part of the first three floors of Cray Plaza, the giant tower behind the smiling Thai girl.
The windows of the school face out into the atrium. Here is the Thai flag and I can tell you what the bands of color represent: red is for the Thai people, White is for Buddhism, and blue is for the King.
After meeting several teachers including Ms. Kate Woolever, Mrs. Larson, Mr. T, and Ms. Redding, we toured the YMCA and the food court in the building and then strolled through Mears Park. Johanna and Christoph, several of these teachers mentioned you guys by name! Fahsai got to meet a fellow student named Lukas from Georgia (the country, not the state).
Here we are watching Sue makes us a nice all American dinner of . . .
. . .hamburgers, corn on the cob, and quinoa salad followed by those Rice Crispies with peanut butter and chocolate dessert. OK, quinoa is not really all American—no one is sure what it is or where it came from but we’re sure eating a lot of it lately.
We just talked to Fahsai’s sister Shawn on her internet face-time device who told us how to get Fahsai’s phone to work like a phone here in the US. I guess we will visit T-mobile tomorrow.
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