Month: May 2006

Queridos Amigos I keep finding myself wanting to break forth in Spanish. But though I have not tried it, I doubt speaking in Spanish would help clarify anything. I hear people talking and think I hear some Spanish words. But it’s all Thai (or Isaan). Things here have been well, though there are no exciting…

Insert some sort of opening word(s) here (i.e. Hey or Howdy) We went to a coffee shop with a very western feel the other day. Not having had anything straight up sweet in a while I selected a bread thing off the shelf that looked like some sort of cinnamon bread. The bread was bread,…

Greetings and such Two days ago we went to a funeral next door that had been going on since I got here. Apparently they last five days. They sat us down on a raised platform/table (cross-legged with shoes off) and fed us papaya salad and snake meat. One of the people in attendance wore a…

Hey Everybody This email connection is slow enough that I don’t want to go back to look at my last email to find out where I left off, so forgive me if I overlap or gap a little. Since Saturday afternoon I’ve been in (the province, not the city of) Roi Et. Arrival here was…

Hey friends I know I’m forgetting some people, and I think I double listed others of you. Sorry. Please send this to anyone I forgot. If you don’t want these mass emails, let me know. I won’t cry (then again, some of you probably could make me). After about 30 hrs at home I hit…