Author: Micah
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A Room
After breakfast at Randy’s house yesterday, I went room searching with Lynn. We looked at six rooms. We found two that were good possibilities (each with a very different set of pros and cons). After a nap I made my choice. I’ll be living in a room right off a man made lake. I’ll be…
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Kung!
After a great night of sleep, Randy, his 3 year-old son, and I launched into a full day. We started by squeezing my stuff into the truck. I say squeezing because the bed of the pickup was already close to full with a 100 liter tank and two large oxygen tanks. We did manage to…
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Sleep
Sunday night I moved out of the church where I have been staying. I didn’t say goodbye as well as I would have liked, in part because I wasn’t packed as soon as I had planned because my clothes hadn’t dried fast at all due to exceptionally high humidity. Pi Tot drove me from the…
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A Child of the Northeast
I just finished a novel set right in the province of Ubon. It was written by Kampoon Boontawee, a native of the Isaan region of Thailand. The book won some awards back in 1976 when it was written. I read a translation by Susan Fulop Kepner with a copywrite date of 1994. The novel takes…
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How to Learn English
Today I sat in on a lesson on learning English delivered primarily in Thai. I sat there both to practice listening to Thai and to get some ideas for language learning. Both goals were achieved. In the midst of it the speaker unintentionally reminded me of how meaningless life is without the life of Christ.…