My first sandwich

I have been so busy this week with almost no time for myself. My boss has a contract with an Italian designer and we are helping him get ready for a show in Paris next month. My boss says I might be able to go with him and I am so excited because I have never been to France before. The work is hard because the designs are quite complicated and we are using patterned fabrics some times. Plain fabrics are easier because you have more flexibility when you mark up the patterns. It is funny really that the design on the fabric is called a pattern but the marks I make on the fabric before it is cut are also called a pattern. It is confusing. English is a confusing language because sometimes a word can mean different things even though it is the same word. And so many words sound the same.

Anyway, the patterns make the patterns difficult. Isn’t it funny to read that, but I know what I mean! Now I am doing five or six patterns a day which is a lot and it makes my head hurt because I have to concentrate really hard. I do not think a computer will ever be able to do my job because you have to be very creative. Sometimes the most efficient way isn’t the best way, especially if the fabric is patterned.

I am not sure if I will be able to go out next Saturday because I think by then I will be exhausted. Last Saturday I went to Gullivers with Anne and it was very busy with lots of farangs. I am a bit shy about what happened actually because Anne and I went with the same farang. I do not mean one after the other, I mean at the same time. Anne said she had never done it before and neither had I but the farang paid us 3,000 baht each and we only had to stay with him for an hour. He had a suite at the JW Marriott Hotel and his name was Steven, with a ‘v’ he said because some farangs spell Steven with a ‘ph’ in the middle so it is written as Stephen. That is another way that English is confusing because ‘ph’ is normally said like it was an ‘f’ but in Stephen it is said as if it was a ‘v’. Sometimes English makes my head hurt more than drawing patterns!

Steven was about forty and was quite good-looking with brown hair that was going grey a bit and green eyes. I had never seen a man with green eyes before. I do not understand why farangs have eyes of many different colours but Thai people only ever have brown eyes. I Think Thai men would look very good with brown or blue eyes. Steven was from Ireland but Anne kept calling it Iceland which was funny. Ireland is next to England but they are different countries. Steven was quite funny and he made us laugh a lot. I think Irish people like to have fun and make jokes. I think they like to drink a lot because he drank more than eight pints of beer while he was talking to us and he kept buying us Bacardi Breezers. I like the orange Bacardi Breezer best, but Anne thinks that the lemon one tastes better. Steven just liked beer. He said he was in Thailand on business. He works for a company that helps banks change their computer systems and you know what, he has worked for Anne’s bank before but she didn’t tell him that. After he had been talking to us for some time he asked us how much it was for a sandwich so I asked a waitress for a menu and showed him that Gullivers has lots of sandwiches and they are not too expensive. Steven laughed and said that wasn’t what he meant, he wasn’t hungry. He said a sandwich was when one man went with two girls. Anne and I still didn’t understand what he meant so he told us – the girls are like the bread in the sandwich and the man is the filling, in the middle. Anne and I were surprised, then shocked, but then he said he would give us 3,000 baht each so we said okay. It was my first time doing a sandwich and Anne said it was too, but I am not sure if she was telling the truth because she wasn’t shy at all but I was. I tried to keep a towel around me and wanted the light off but Anne said it was more fun if the light was on. She made love to Steven and told me to kiss him which I did and then I started to enjoy it. I think I was a bit drunk really. Steven wanted me and Anne to kiss but I said I couldn’t do that and he said that was okay. I think I would have to be very very drunk to kiss another girl. Steven seemed very happy having his sandwich and I was very happy with the three thousand baht he gave me so everyone was happy. He said he came to Gullivers a lot and that he would see us again and I said that would be great. He said he didn’t have a girlfriend and that was a surprise because he was a nice guy and generous and I think a lot of girls would like to be his girlfriend.