Category: Thailand
-
What’s On Your Spice Rack?
One reason I like Thai food is the diversity of flavors. A good Thai meal will have something sweet, something sour, something spicy, something salty, something bland, and something bitter. Last night our waitress asked us if we wanted to add ________ to one of the dishes we ordered to make it more bitter. One…
-
Grades
At the school where I teach grades are submitted both in hard copy and digitally. Both seem unnecessarily cumbersome. The hard copy of the grades is a multiple paged book that includes daily attendance, behavior scores, standardized testing scores, unit scores for first semester, mid term scores (broken down into unit scores), unit scores for…
-
Down to the River
Sunday my guard took me to his village. We spent the day with his extended family down in and around the river. It was a good opportunity for observing the interactions of genders and ages. Pretty much everybody was represented. There were little kids, bigger not-so kids, people my age, and people who could be…
-
Pleasantly Easy
The other day I was able to get new driver’s licenses and a new SIM card with my old number all in a single afternoon. Dealing with the loss of the things from my motorcycle has been easier than I expected. I still keep locking myself out of my front door. I lock the lock…