I'm a Muai Thai Boxing Champion!

Last night Lisa met a girl named Sophia or Sophie or something. She's a girl that lives at Discovery Lodge. I don't know how long she's been there, but she has 30 pairs of heeled strappy shoes, at least 15 hats, and at least 15 handbags to match. She's half Thai, half Malaysian. This makes her darker skinned than most Thai, so she pretends to think she's ugly (white is the cool thing around here, every face/body product is whitening which I'd like to say is weird, but we do it with teeth, and tanning seems just as ridiculous to them, so I'll keep quiet) but she's a model, and she's gorgeous and she has 4 mirrors in her living room and smiles at herself constantly in all the mirrors so I'm pretty sure she knows she's beautiful. Anyway, she's a part time model and then a freelance aerobics/yoga/boxing/self-defense teacher. So Lisa met her, and then came down to tell me about her and then we went back and did aerobics/yoga/boxing/self-defense with her. We started with yoga inside her apartment but it was really hot, so we moved outside to our "patio" (parking lot) and did boxing and self-defense stuff outside. She went through like 5 outfits over the course of the 3 hours. But it was really fun! I was jumping and sweating and doing the karate "huh!" thing and doing ridiculous looking kicks and all this stuff. I decided I want to be able to be able to get into the bridge position by leaning backwards (right now I can lay on my back and get up, but can't get to it from a standing position) and then, be able to stand back up from that. Pretty huge goals, but I usually do nothing at night so maybe I'll get bored enough to actually practice. Anyway, it was really fun, I was active and social and learning stuff. Usually I'm sitting, eating whatever's in my fridge and watching really bad HBO movies. (I'm working on an embarrassing list of the movies I've seen since getting here.)

Last thing about Sophie. She's cool, she's beautiful but not by being tiny, she's taller than me and is super strong, she speaks pretty good English, and wants to take Lisa and me out with her friends this weekend. Cool. She dresses all sexy when she goes out (but only takes very modest modeling jobs as to not upset her dad) but she's apparently not a "bar girl" cause she has a boyfriend. More about the boyfriend. He's from England. They've been dating for 5 years. She's never been to England. He's 55. Oh right, Sophie's 23. Ugh. It's so strange. I've worked hard to get over the white guys with Thai girl thing (for the most part) but when he's over 50, and she's younger then half his age, yeah, that still creeps me out. Oh Thailand.

Tomorrow I'm teaching a course to pre-intermediate students about "too much/many" and "not enough." I think I'm going to start by asking them how much rice usually goes on a plate and then draw a plate with rice overflowing so they say "No no no! Need less!" and then just a couple of grains of rice so they say "No no no! Need more!" and then I'll set the stage perfectly for too much and not enough. I'm so good. Now I just need to figure out how to draw rice on a plate.

Wish me luck!