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And the Bird You Cannot Change
A little while back I was invited to go to a ceremony of sorts. It was quite unlike any ceremony that I have ever witnessed or even heard of. It translates directly to Set Free Fish Set Free Birds.This is the basic rundown: Buddhists believe that in order to receive good karma in this or even... Read more...
Published 10 months ago

I hope I die before I get old
Peace Corps has a number of groups called GIG's (Global Initiative Groups). The GIG's are found in many Peace Corps countries and sometimes even collaborate together. About a year ago I applied to and was accepted as a member of the Youth Development GIG for PC Thailand. Last year I was able to... Read more...
Published 11 months ago

Keep it coming
I am coming up on 6 months left in my time in Thailand as a PC Volunteer. Things have been moving along swiftly of late. I have been putting a lot of time into two things recently (besides teaching): a youth leadership camp and an HIV/AIDS education camp.I am currently serving as the leader of... Read more...
Published 11 months ago

Get a hair cut and get a real job
One of the questions I get a lot is, "What do people grow where you live?"The Thai existence, as I have experienced it, is centered around growing and harvesting food and other products from the natural world. It wasn't too long ago that the Western world had such an agrarian focus as well.... Read more...
Published a year ago

Look at me I can be Centerfield
A couple of weeks ago an NGO that is in my district sponsored some sports competitions. I live deep in the country side and kids here do not have the same opportunities to play sports in organized leagues. There is no equivalent of a CYO league, biddy basketball or little league. The schools do... Read more...
Published a year ago

Let them brush your rock and roll hair
Howdy folks. Things have been busy for me here in good ways. At the end of June, I had a couple of visitors out to see me. Jesse of Bear Creek and Hidden Valley fame and his new wife, Emily stopped in Thailand for two weeks. Both of them had been to Thailand before (they met here in fact).... Read more...
Published a year ago

What would you do for a Klondike Bar?
Sometimes I get weird cravings of foods that I never really ate a lot of in the States, but that I want to eat now that I am somwhere I can't find them. Like Klondike Bars.This past few weeks the pace at school has been picking up again. I have been working with a group of students that will... Read more...
Published a year ago

Visakha Bucha
So school is back in full swing again now. This year looks to be rather different than last. For starters, I am working with a different co-teacher. Her name is Kwan and she is about 27, I think. You may remember her husband, Mu, I talked about him a while back. They have been teaching at my... Read more...
Published a year ago

Get tired of travelin' and you want to settle down
My past couple of months have been pretty action packed. I have been on the road off and on, but mostly on, since the last entry that I wrote. To name a few places, I have been to Sakon Nakon, Hua Hin, Koh Chang, Roi Et, Kohn Kaen, Nong Khai, Lao (which is a different country), Udon, Bangkok, and... Read more...
Published a year ago

Never in the left cause my right's my good ear
Today I am in Chantaburi town. For people that live in the middle of the country, like me, Thailand has developed a method of transport to get them into town: the song tao. Song Taos are pickup trucks that have been altered a bit to take passengers in the back. There are two benches the... Read more...
Published 2 years ago

That time then and once again...I'm teaching English
I just spent the past three days working with one of my schools at a festival held in the provincial capital. Every school in Chantaburi province had a booth there offering a range of activities or products to buy. It was held at the large fitness part in Chantaburi, The King Thaksin the Great... Read more...
Published 2 years ago

Things ain't always what it seems
Sometimes things are so surreal here that I am not sure they are really happening.Last night I went to some kind of community celebration. A few people with varying English skills tried to explain it to me because I knew none of the Thai vocabulary that they were using. What I got was that the... Read more...
Published 2 years ago