Damn Asians
Do you have any relatives who aren't from America? It sucks, doesn't it? My grandmother is from Thailand. She's wandering the hall right now asking where Ploy is. It's 12:30 in the friggin morning! Ploy is the little girl that my grandmother helped to raise. Her friend needed to go away for awhile or something and my grandmother took care of her daughter, Ploy. This kind of thing's kinda common in Asia, having a house full of distant relations and stuff. Anywho, the point is that my grandmother was watching over Ploy back about 7 or 8 years ago. My grandmother hasn't seen her since she moved to America to live with us. Boy is she getting senile. Maybe it's alzheimers, who knows. We should look into it. I tried so hard to tell my grandmother that Ploy is an entirely different country, but my Thai is extremely limited. I feel so bad. The best I can tell her is that my mom will explain it to her when she wakes up in the morning. Anybody got a Thai-English dictionary with phoenetical English pronunciations? (because Thai is a fucking bitch to read, I can't do it. 44 consonants, 22 some-odd vowels, 5 tonal inflections for any given syllable... fuck that shit). The poor woman is like 86 and her husband, my grandfather, just died last January. Now she's mumbling about how much of a troublesome little girl Ploy and how she should let us know where she's going if she's going to stay at somebody else's house. It's times like this, and pretty much ONLY times like this, that I really wish my Thai was better. What little I told her I could hardly form into proper sentences. Oh well, it looks like she went back to bed. I'll have my mom explain it all to her tomorrow morning.