Sofitel Raja Orchid Khon Kaen

... listing my work address). He laughed out loud at my card because, unlike Thai business cards that sport a photo of the person, mine has a line drawing of George Washington's head. He pointed to it and said "In God We Trust" and then continued to laugh. As much as I love the business cards at GW, perhaps GW should give faculty a different version to use when traveling internationally. People in Thailand seem to find my business card hilarious. This is not necessarily a good thing ...

... br><br>What to say? What do you do? Does Emily Post offer a proper response in such circumstances? Does Hallmark make a card for these occasions? Do you say, "Sorry I accosted your manhood?" Or a more flip "Oops, terribly sorry, thought that was the pole." Or do you do like I do, and pretend you are totally unaware of what has transpired?<br><br>I effuse apologies and pardon mes but the ...

... getting a kick out of listening to me try to teach Fei-Li about research design and methods. The meeting with Fei-Li was challenging because she is incredibly bright and ambitious and she wants to research everything under the sun. Getting her to narrow her focus (and pick a reasonable sampling strategy - i.e. knocking on every door in one region of China to find people over the age of 65 is not a reasonable strategy) is an ongoing challenge. She's a wonderful student, though ...

... now is kind of fun. Sick, I know, but I can't help it - I'm geeky like that.<br><br>After the opening ceremony, I taught another "Writing for Publication" workshop for doctoral students. We practiced giving and receiving constructive feedback and I had the unfortunate task of telling someone with a 20-page research paper - 18 pages of which was qualitative in nature - that 2-pages of demographic data does not a mixed-methods study make. The student took the news like a champ and ...

... changes on chronic illness. I asked the students how many of them ride motorcycles (almost all of them) and how many of them wear helmets (none of them). As one of the faculty members noted, "Helmets are worn to protect you from the police, not from head injuries." Thus, people only put their helmet on when they see a policeman coming their way. I asked the students if they were familiar with the statistics on head injuries in Thailand and they said many, many ...

... there somewhere. <br><br>So anyway, people started singing along to the karaoke songs and with each song, there was a corresponding video showing a couple doing ballroom dancing. The Dean and her husband moved all the furniture out of the way so that we could all learn the dances. I was nervous at first but within a few minutes, I was attempting to learn the rumba, the tango, and the waltz with everyone as we tried to follow along with the video and with the Dean and her husband ...

... the trail, I saw a HUGE (like 2 inches long) beetle-thing flipped over on its back, wiggling around. (Of course I took a picture for Grey - uploaded it here as well for your viewing pleasure).<br><br>Once I was at work today, nothing much exciting happened. I worked on the proposal for the Dean (fortunately I have a few extra days to work on the first draft) and I started sketching out floorplans based on national/international standards for child care facilities, nursing homes ...

... at a slower and slower pace. Early on in my walk, I had seen a sign that listed the name of something (I couldn't tell what) with a notation that it was 1.5 km away so I thought, hey, I'll just walk to that place. How far can 1.5 km be anyway? (I am atrocious at metric conversions - for some reason, I thought 1.5 kilometers was equal to a fourth of a mile). Twenty stiflingly sweaty minutes into my walk, I realized that 1.5 kilometers = almost a mile. At the end of my walk, there wasn ...

... van bijelkaar 5 uur. Apen zien slingeren, takatoes gehoord en gezien (helaas wel van veraf) en als mooie afsluiter een grote mooie waterval. voor degenen die de film de Beach van onze grote vriend leonado depraprio hebben zien,.. het is de waterval waarhij vanaf sprong.. kapot waren we na afloop, na het eten (bbq met friet en MAJO)bij de bungalows waar we sliepen meteen geslapen. De volgende dag is dus nu en was het 1e kerstdag,Marth jarig! ja ja 24 ...