After over 22 hours of flying, my team and I have arrived safely in Bangkok. We left Saturday morning and arrived at the hotel around 1 a.m. Monday, which is kind of a trip.

While driving to the hotel, I noticed a U Turn sign (written in both Thai and English), and it made me realize how privileged I am to be born in the United States and to learn English from birth. Almost anywhere you travel in the world, English is both written and spoken. What luck I have to be born in a country where I learned it naturally.

I am not going to get into why it is that English is universally spoken and the political and historical atrocities associated with English dominance (though, for the record, Thailand was never colonized, so their use of English is because of the economic dominance and not oppressive forces), but I am just going to be thankful for the privilege into which I was born. Maybe you should be too.

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