Bamboo-Lake-Village Chiang Mai

... of ripping the director of Sony's head off, rubbing my sh*t in his decapitated face, and then shooting his already dead face with an AK47 until there were no bullets left in the world, and then punching the remains of his stupid f*cking face until all that was left of my arms were stumps at the elbows. Then I wanted to kick his dead testicles until my legs snapped. And I like Sony, generally.
I am sure my attempts to supress my rage in the internet cafe largely failed ...

... then I'm cooked, so the pool will be a welcome respite.

The cool snap passed and it has been blistering hot again. I had to change classrooms once as the kids and I couldn't stand the heat and the air con wasn't working. And the sun is brilliantly blinding - you step outside and you feel like Gizmo in that Gremlins movie - "Bright light! Bright light!"

Gotta go learn some Thai.

... br>Half a day traveling down through the mountain waters on a bamboo raft which I steered magnificently...like a hero almost. So up steps Aidan to so likewise based on how easy I made it look...Yep, you've guessed it, he tried to drown us driving us towards the cliff edge before falling over. Luckily the the professional with us jumped up and took over, also ...

... 8217;t need any extensive training to show them how to do that. The celebrity status still had not settled and every day was a new set of interesting stories. One morning I had a kid so shy that he was shaking while he tried to say "Hi my name is……. What is your name?." That afternoon I was teaching 15 yr. olds and I had two ladyboys stand up in the back of the class and dance some kind of disco dance for 20 minutes. I then called on them ...

... we were like consultant specialists or something. I mean we had no class we stuck with and we did not have to grade students. However, this situation had advantages and disadvantages. First we only had to make 1 or 2 lesson plans a week because we were always teaching a new class. However, Laura and I had to teach 4 to 5 classes a day of 30 to 45 students each. Ok, so that means by Friday Laura and I will have taught 800 kids each. Also, we taught grades 1,2,3,4,5,6 in ...

... of rather touristy nature: a ride on the bamboo raft and then on an elephant. After days of rain the river was big and the current swift. I was almost knocked off the raft by an overhanging tree branch.

By the time I returned to the place of my CS host, I was wet, muddy and smelly. After a quick bath and the laundry, I enjoyed a nice massage in his wife’s shop. I needed all those to get ready for the next day, when I would take a long, 24 hours bus ride to Cambodia via Bangkok.

... elefantes, como aprovechaban cada riachuelo por los que pasabamos para refrescarse un poco, con el peligro por nuestra parte de recibir una ducha embarrada y puede que con algun moco de elefante :) (en esos momentos yo guardaba la camara rapidamente). Tambien iban rastreando el suelo con las trompas y recogiendo todo aquello que les iba interesando. Era como si llevaran unos aperitivos bajo el brazo para irselos comiento durante el paseo. De vez en cuando alguno ...

... van een gigantische 15e eeuwse tempel. Dit is een van die momenten waarop ik het spijtig vind dat mijn camera kapot is maar aangezien ik dit moment toch met jullie wil delen volgt een beknopte beschrijving: De tempel is minstens 100 meter hoog en had 500 jaar geleden wellicht de vorm van een geblokte piramide. De 4 hoofdingangen -aan elke kant 1- die naar de top leiden bestaan telkens uit 2 mythische 3-meter lange draakachtige slangenhoofden en hun lijven leiden 20m ...

Salimos de Tadlo con destino a Pakse, en un bus normalito llegamos a la estacion central de Pakse, de ahi, en tuktuk, tuvimos que trasladarnos hasta la market station (no acertamos ni una) y de ahi, ipso facto, nos meten en otro tuktuk que nos llevaria hasta la frontera con Thailandia. En el trayecto en este tuktuk, eramos, junto con una pareja de italianos, los unicos turistas. Tardamos unas dos horas en llegar hasta un mercado donde nos dijeron que nos bajaramos ...

Another blue tent was being pitched late morning of that winter day as we prepared to climb down the 1,288-metre-high mountain top of Phu Kradung in Loei Province. Camp officers were busy erecting more tents for tourists expected to arrive in droves over the long weekend. All around us there were tents lined up in an orderly manner filling up the green valley the size of two football fields. ``More than ten thousand visitors are here on long weekends,'' said a camp officer. ``The ...