I have a master’s class to teach this morning, then our whole family + nanny are off to Bangkok. We have an appointment tomorrow morning at the embassy’s ACS building to report Mina’s birth abroad and apply for a passport. The problem? There are 100,000 demonstrators trying to get noticed at high profile venues such as, say, in the front of the US embassy. So I’m in my crowd-dodging mode and have hardened my forearms just in case.
I would have waited for the demonstrators to go home, but last year it took them months just to give up their hold on the airport, and we really need this passport now.
Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people
Still protesting, huh? Is this sort of stuff still holding up the flights at the airport like last year?
I hope you have smooth passage through that civil disturbance and all goes well for you and the family!