"do you have any rooms?"

i totally just remembered this happening in Koh Phangan on New Years Eve morning.

so kevin and i were sitting in some restaurant/guesthouse having breakfast and waiting for our snorkel trip to take off and there were hell backpackers just arriving in Koh Phangan just for the day/night to party for new years eve.

then all of a sudden these two western men came in and started talking in slow english and also using their hands to communicate, "do you have any rooms available?"

i snapped back at them, "uhh, i dont work here."

it reminds me of that time that stupid american interrupted mine and samanthas conversation at the pier to ask us why we were speaking to each other in english. first, he assumed we were thai. second, he assumed thai people HAD to talk to each other in thai. third, he would have never assumed we were americans.

being here in thailand, i've come to the conclusion that although, most of the time i resent that i'm american . . most of the time, i end up becoming very defensive about it. i guess to most people around the world, american is american. there is no such thing as asian-american.

kind of related, in laos . . after kevin told someone he was american, they asked him if he was part african. because OF COURSE . . if you're not white american, the only other immigrants are african-americans.