Thai family

I just wanted to write down what I feel are a few differences of family life back home to Thailand this may not be for every family and maybe just the one I am staying with mind you but I have seen the same behaviour with neighbour family's also.

First of all I noticed that when ever someone needs anything from the shop (1-2 mins away) or down town (13 miles) they simply ask one of their family members and they seem to do as if it's their job without any quarrel. The most surprising times I have seen this is when we are having a few drinks (beer or whisky) we start to run out and the parents tell one of the children to go get some more and I've seen them send off their kids as what looks like about 9 years old to the shop on their bicycle to get some more beer for them. This always makes me chuckle when I see them cycling back with a bag of beer :) Also funnily enough I have yet to see any drunken under age Thai even with this easily accessible alcohol to them.

Every meal is eaten together as a family and it is actually considered rude I'm told for them to eat alone. It's quite nice to sit around with them all listening to their stories about what happened during their day well that's what I imagine because I don't usually understand much so I have to amuse myself sometimes as to what they're actually saying.

I will keep sharing these differences but again I don't want to bore you too much in one post :) Just a couple of random pics as well of Briss and Mixer.