Guest Blogger: Sutada of Thailand
To have a few weeks to live with American’s home-stay family is another highlight of this program. I have experienced myself how Americans live and I would say that the way they live tells a lot about what the way they are. I’ve noticed that American’s way of life is the life of balancing their private and career in their living. No matter how busy they are during the weekdays, they are spending their personal life with their preferences and families during the weekend and holidays. However, if they have to work during weekend they trend to compensate the missed-out holidays somewhere in the near future.
Another essential of learning American’s lives is the way they work. They are early-bird and family oriented. They start working at 8am and finish their working hours at 5pm with one hour lunch break. I would say that Americans are a kind of “hard working” people.
I also have learned that they don’t dress up for working. In Thailand, people tend to dress up for working day and dress down during evening or for having dinner (except for the dating dinner- a lady might dress up but a gentleman won’t and rather be in casual dress than woman.) They are wearing jeans and casual shirts for working during the work day both women and men but they are dress up a bit for having eat-out dinner. The Governor of Montana himself never wears a necktie only the Bolo tie and the cowboy stye head belt and shoes with jeans!
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