Things I Won't Miss About Thailand

1. MIL – goes without saying really
2. Living with the parents
3. Being surrounded by so much PORK! (and living next door to pig killers!)
4. Fish Gut Curry and Geng Som (spicy yellow fish curry, a staple at 90% of meals in southern Thailand)
5. Going to funerals and monk parties almost fortnightly and made to eat Fish Gut Curry whilst watching everyone else devour 7 different types of pork dishes…literally, I am not exaggerating!
6. Being stared at constantly
7. Having no friends close by
8. Cold showers in rainy season
9. The dust and mould the pervades everything
10. Being told that I’m slightly fat (although #10 on the above list kinda cancels this one out!)
11. Rampant corruption both locally and nationally at every level
12. The smell of wet rubber (think vomit mixed with baby poo…really!)
13. Seeing so many little kids with black, rotten teeth
14. Being woken up at 5.45am every morning by the obscenely loud radio news program over humungo speakers 10 metres from my window
15. Being ‘asked’ to do English school camps that I can’t say no to because my husband’s family are all bloody school teachers! (this is my number one actually.. it even beats the MIL!)
16. Gangs of howling dogs in the middle of the night
17. KARAOKE! (no, I really won't miss it, not even a wee bit!!)