Ariyasomvilla Bangkok

... have thunk! Hey as long as we are saving a little who cares right? ;-)

I also thought it was appropriate since it was Thanksgiving week that we do a lot on turkeys and the holiday. We made fact feathered turkeys that turned out really great, and the students actually remembered the vocabulary the following day. I haven't asked to see if they remember this week, but I was excited to know they had for at least the next day! We did a four-square ...

... to get us to Siam Reap. That bus ride was really nice and relaxed. We stopped for a break and met a beautiful little Cambodian 9 month old baby. They said we could have him! Finally after 10 hours we arrived at our hotel. Its really nice for the price and they are very helpful. We have just been for our first Cambodian meal where the street children were asking us to buy their products. That was awful and we felt really bad. They knew all the sizes of the ...

... 1501; להוצי 88; ויזה להודו.
במשך שאר היום צעדתי ברחוב 93;ת התייר 93;תיים של בנגקו 11;. זרם אין סופ ...

... is all seniors (aka, 22 years old, aka, my age, aka, **** my pants), and they're as mature as mature can be. That feels like teaching a college class. The real issue, it seems, is that the academic ethos isn't what it is in the States. Back home, you're very much responsible for your own education once you're in college. This is like teaching high school students. These kids have never had to take responsibility for ****. They have no idea what it means to problem solve, think ...

... to make sure I got to the airport on time - the way Thai busses run (see above) you never know. I stayed at a hotel on Soi 8 that was recommended by a teacher at TEFL and it was a real bomb. $36 , thought I’d splurge and get a nice hotel - The Royal Asia Lodge. Sounds nice, huh? Not so fast. First of all the bathroom was skanky. Then the room reeked of smoke - I kept the air on all night just to breathe. I pulled down the ...

... in favor of what is viable and tolerant. The mainstream, the heart and soul of that bell curve, needs to stand up and stop letting the simplistic tails of extremism dictate the debate. I feel disconnected from the debate; I stand by the side and shake my head in incredulity. I am starting to believe that most of us; ie the mainstream are doing the same. I am waiting for a hero. Perhaps we are all waiting for a disaster to delineate a timeframe of catastrophic ...

... and walking around our neighborhood. That night we checked out the Night Bazaar which was cool. They have a huge stage that people sign up to sing on for the crowd. Like karaoke - some even had back-up dancers. Pretty sweet.

Our time in Bangkok included a lot of shopping - after all, that's what it's known for. I guess I was really the one shopping. They have a world famous weekend market that tops anything and everything like it in the world (so they say ...

... China and Burma to finally get to a country, mainly Thailand, which would not send them back to North Korea.

The children were also kept with their mothers, and we saw the day care that IOM had set up at the detention center. There were about 5 or 6 children and they were in a two room section of the office. Overall it looked like a nice place were the mothers could get a break ...

... ordered to wear it by there doctor to protect others from some catastrophically contagious condition, or whether they had been brainwashed into believing that somehow their body, a miracle of nature they must not of completely communicated with, cannot defend itself and that without antibiotics would crumble to any bacterial exposure. Which one was it? A few times I would think it was some disease and ...

... own private concert.



We met up with our group at our seats, got something to eat, and started to drink right away.

The night started off kinda slow but picked up as we started to make friends in our area of sitting.

I taught the Thai people what the drinking game water fall ...