Roi Et

... in the pose of "giving blessing" and is actually the largest buddha statue in Thailand in this particular pose. So after seeing the above and having no bike to go farther afield, i left Roi-Et earlier than planned and headed north to ...

... Golden Dragon Busline bus to our destination of Roi Et, a city of about 33,000 in the East central part of Thailand.   Upon arrival in Roi Et our tour guide, Randy, took us to a $12 a night hotel.  We rested up a bit, then we walked around town ...

Here are some pictures of our time in Roi-Et. You will see us at home and pictures of traveling through ...

Hello! These are some pictures of us teaching in Roi-Et which is in the North Eastern part of Thailand. This part of Thailand is nothing like Bangkok where we spent our first four months living.  The people are so friendly and the students are eager ...

These are some pictures of what the kids do in church. We have 100 children show up every week. ...

... ; anyway, this post is just a recount of the last week in what i like to call "stone age Nebraska"  or in Thai.....roi et. of course nothing in my relationship with ninny ever goes as its supposed to.  it was an on again off again proposition ...

... city on the bus.  Wat Buraphaphiram has a large standing buddha which I have been led to believe was 100m tall.  The name Roi Et actually means 101 in Thai.  We wander around the temple and I spot a notice in English and Thai that tells us ...

... my eye in either place was the cheeses but again I thought that they were silly expensive. Leaving the shops I spot a sign pointing to Roi Et Museum and as Jai likes museums I follow it.  It leads to a locked and apparently deserted building so I ...

... .  We want to buy an oven so that Jai can bake cakes but the local town has come up empty in this department.  Roi Et has a Tesco Lotus which we are hoping will be able to help.  Whilst in Roi Et we visit the land registry to ...

... in the storm and Jai decides that today would be a good day for us to take the bike and ride the 50km or so to the city of Roi Et where she has to visit the land office.  We make it about half way in the dry and then the heavens open.  I carry ...

... Hope it works out.  The work ethic here is a bit lacking, so who knows how it will play out. I thought I might take a bus into Roi Et, a town about an hour away, just to see a different street.   Ajarn Kelly and Ajarn Steve are going to Kalasin, ...

On Thursday night Seamus drove Jacque, Kelly, Steve and myself out to Ban Si Kaeo, a rural village near Roi Et.  One of the Thai professors, Ooey, had been working on a project, creating a documentary of native life there, for the past two ...