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Happy Thanksgiving!
… words heard from not a single student today. Surprise, surprise. I think I’ve actually seen a real live turkey here in Mahasarakham, up in the forest near the fish…
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Sunset on Nodules
Taken at the English Camp we went on a couple weeks back. (Nodules will be explained in a later post)
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Embanking
In most of the world, there is no OSHA I saw this shot when arriving to my building at school this morning. I passed by first, then turned around my…
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Natty Dread
A few months ago I wrote about the dragonfruit trees in our backyard secretly blooming at midnight. Well, these are pitaya by day: Bob must have been thinking of pitaya…
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loltokays
After looking over that last post, I just couldn’t help myself: (click on photo to open large version in pop-up)
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Wild Animal Day / Akrachat’s Most Wanted
Since we live next to a forest, we are used to seeing both wild and domesticated animals just over the wall as well as in and around the house. Out…
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Curtain
We were really busy running around to our schools and searching for the perfect set of tiles in a dusty warehouse all day, so the rain was most welcome when…
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Nam Nuong
Nam Nuong are the little grilled sausages on sticks shown below, but it’s also the name of this dish. It’s Vietnamese in origin, but I don’t know what it’s called…
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How I found out I’m not shaking my shoes out hard enough every morning
A heart-shaped frog procrastinated loudly when I jammed my foot in. Then, when I tried to pry him loose from the cavernous regions of the toe compartment, he secreted something…
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D&D
Meet thine foe: The Giant Centipede These things just look evil, and Nam insisted I dispatch it when we found it in her university’s parking lot. “Dangerous for students walking…
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Book Recommendation for Thailand
I just finished reading Narrative of a Residence in Siam, a book written by a chap named Fred Arthur Neale in the 1850s. It was, in a word, excellent. The…
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Cheating Problems with Thai Students
This week is the final week for both my regular and weekend classes; the last final for my last class is tomorrow and I just threw a pretty good one…
