Category: Thailand

Howdy I approach this email with timidity and trepidation. I have heard rumors that these things are actually being read. That’s intimidating. To make public disclosure more frightening, life has been less eventful since last I wrote. Unlike past issues, I have not eaten anything that when described in an email to the West provokes…

Good Day New readers welcome to the sixths edition, sorry that you missed the earlier ones. So, it’s been awhile. I apologize both for not writing and for now perhaps writing more than you care to read. Four days ago I was here at the center when, following devos it was announced that there would…

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…