Category: Thailand
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Ubon’s Autumn
It would be true to say I haven’t written for a while. Recently I have been enjoying cooler weather (and three days off school). I have had the pleasure of some rather autumnal walks. I love long sleeves and cool breezes. I like stepping on dry fallen leaves (there are a few trees that seem…
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Loy Krathong
I went out for Loy Krathong tonight. Like last year, I enjoyed seeing people sending flaming balloons of tissue paper into the air. I also enjoyed the hour I spent with three older gentlemen who asked me to sit down. The one guy had driven a supply truck in Cambodia for the UN during Khmer…
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Lines
The other day after classes I went outside the school and ordered a snack. There were a number of students who had already ordered ahead of me. I waited. After I’d waited a while the vendor made a comment about my patience. He wondered that I didn’t tell him to serve me, the teacher, before…
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How to be Creepy
Today during the lunch hour somebody practiced the following steps of creepy on me. I found them quite effectively creepy. 1. Sit on your motorcycle in the shade watching passersby. 2. When a passerby catches your eye wait till they pass you, then drive ahead to the next tree and again sit in the shade.…