Slip

tinfoilhat, on 2012-05-20 03:51:31, said:

Because it a totally foreign concept to most westerners. How many westerners can squat like asians do every day? Not many. Then while squatting and maintaining your balance, you have to squeeze out a mud turtle. Hell, most westerners have problems evacuating the mud turtle while sitting down, much less while squatting and maintaining their balance. That's having to concentrate on three things at one time and in this day and age where most people have the attention span of a gnat, that's asking a lot. So, at this point the novice squat toilet user who has just pinched a loaf, still squatting and not falling in the bowl, now has to balance a water bowl while pouring water down his crack while flicking dingleberries with his left had. Now that's four things he has to do at one time. Squat, balance, pour and flick all at the same time. Surely here is where the poor farang looses it, slips, falls in the bowl, then posts a thread on TV asking just how to use a squat toilet.

I see my role as a teacher primarily as giving them the tools they need to learn, facilitator, coach and mentor.

It usually takes several tens of hours before even some of the Thai students figure out how to take responsibility for their own learning, and some never do.

I would also never trust a doctor that couldn't feel free to answer "I don't know, I'll have to look that up" or even "looks like I was wrong".