Category: Thailand
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Noodles
Yesterday night my landlady introduced me to the music teacher at the school where I am going to be teaching. He teaches all sorts of music, including Thai folk music. I was quite happy to make his acquaintance. Discoving that I had not yet eaten dinner, my new music teacher friend took me with him…
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WET!
I’ve now completed day one of a three-day, nationwide water fight. The root of it all is pouring water while giving a blessing. What comes from that root are pickups loaded with tanks of water driving back and forth on the main roads drenching each other. There are even official places you can stop to…
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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…