We have a maid. She comes to our house twice a week, and she is great. Absolutely terrific.
Usually she gets here around 10 in the morning which is fine. Today she arrived before eight… When I enter the kitchen she asks me:
“Ari make noice?”
Ari (Arirat) is of course her name and she uses that instead of “I”, all the time. She found our globe today, so takes it off the shelf and brings it to me and says:
“Ari, work here, far from Thailand!”
She points at The Cayman Island.
“Ari work, very far. I go alone. 24 hours on an airplane. Twelve hours to United Kingdom and twelve hours to Cayman Islands also. Very far.”
Me: “No one came with you?”
“NO ONE, Ari go alone”
“Wow, what an adventure.”
“Ad… what – Ari don’t understand…”
“Well you see Adventure is when you go and do something and you don’t really know what will happen or where you will go.”
“Ohh, but Ari read, Ari read sign. No problem.