The first thing is that he is no longer to be known as above, but as Tanapon (as if his other name wasn't difficult enough for us).
When Tom (MERCY) and I arrived at school 7 Kru Oi immediately appeared with Tanapon and we discovered that his choice of food was K.F.C. Poor Tom, he can't look at or smell chicken, so whilst we ate he beetled off in search of a blueberry smoothy, and his photo's were somewhat at a distance initially.
Although conversation was extremely limited, I did cause Tanapon great amusement when I tried the tiniest bit of a spicy chicken leg and it nearly blew my head off. He laughed and laughed. It was my turn to laugh when we shared a baked tart though, as the chocolate kept running off in all directions whenever he took a bite.
After lunch we went downstairs to shop, and whilst Tom and he headed off to find some clothes, I headed off to begin the grocery shopping.
I learned from Tom that he prefers casual clothing, T-shirts and shorts - no jeans yet. We thought he might like some sports clothing too, but he's not into sports at all. When I asked him what he does in his leisure time he said he watches T.V. and VCDs, although he was thrilled with the remote controlled car he chose.
Despite also buying rice, oil, soy,fish and oyster sauces, condensed milk, tinned fish, jam, honey, bread, seaweed crisps, Kit-Kat Bites, peanuts, pork, minced beef, eggs, flavoured milk, toothpaste, toothbrushes and shampoo we still had 1,000 B left over and since he said he'd never been to Underwater World, we thought we'd try and arrange to take him sometime. It's quite near his home and it wouldn't take too long, so I don't think his grandparents would mind. We'll see what we can do.
He's such a nice child - always clean and tidy, always has a smile and always very respectful. Since there was so much to carry we took him home with the groceries etc, and then back to school and he gave us a lovely wai as we left him.
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