English Words

My Thai language teacher is also an English teacher. He asked me to come in and help him teach a few of his beginner's courses. This was an excellent opportunity to hop on, so naturally, I agreed. This particular lesson was divided into 4 sections: colors, days of the week, months of ther year and invitations.
The section on invitations was basically just a series of questions that all began with "Would you like..." I wasn't paying too close attention to the handout's examples. I waited until he had the class recite each example out loud to realize what they were.

All seven students said the following sentences out loud and in unison:
Example 1: "WOOOOD YOOOOU LIYKE SOM CAWFEE"
Example 2: "WOOOOD YOOOOU LYYKE TOOOO GOO TOOO DEEESCOTAAAYK WIT MEEE"

Here's the kicker:
Example 3: "WOOOOD YOOOOU LYYKE TOOOO MALLLYYY MEE"

That's right. Would you like to marry me. Now that we've established what six colors are, what day of the week it is and the fact that you don't like coffee, let's get married. My eyes grew big and I looked onto the handout to make sure I wasn't hearing them incorrectly.
By the way, my beginner's lessons in Thai language consisted of learning the words for directions, food, greetings, apologies, prostitution and massages. Their beginner's lessons were totally not the same.
After my 5 seconds of shock were up, I bit my lower lip so that I wouldn't crack a smile. It just seemed that absurd to me. Then after a minute, I realized it was just really sad. He's teaching this class, consisting of 5 women and 2 men, the English words they'll probably want to know whenever they speak to a westerner.
Coincidentally or not, when I went to the bar next to my hotel that night to play pool and converse some more with the locals, the Burmese refugee bartender asked me to marry her. This was after I called her a trooper for still being on her feet after a 16 hour work day. When she asked me to marry her, she was being facetious with me, for the most part. I'm pretty sure. In reality though, I don't think a man'd have to twist her arm too hard if he wanted to marry her. Anything to stop the 16 hour work days, 7 days a week.