Well I would love to write a long post about all these crazy and cool things I have been doing. However, for the past few days, things have been rather normal. I work (a lot) and I teach and teach and teach. When I finally am tired from teaching all day, I hang out or eat with various friends around town. I can still go to a new restaurant every night and not run out of new places, and it is amazing the kinds of places you can find. Down this narrow path between a boarded up bookshelf and a freezer in a shop that looks closed you can find a beautiful air conditioned place that makes good sweet and sour chicken and it overlooks the river. I love that I do not suffer for dinner companions now.
As for the new farang, none of my farang group has yet to meet him, though my Thai friends are tapping their contacts to find out all his juicy personal info *sigh*. Lately I have been discussing a few main things with my friends: educational theories on teaching younger children, the benefits (or lack thereof) we think Thailand will gain from becoming part of ASEAN, when we think the cold (or dry) season in Thailand will start and the fate of the world. It really is rather amusing and fascinating to get opinions on these topics from people who have lived all around the world and it makes for great discussion. I get to hear personal accounts of policies and politics of different countries and their thoughts on America and Americans. I believe my favorite quote so far has been this: "There are two types of Americans: the ones who own passports and the ones that don't." All of it is food for thought. Last night I was having another end of the world discussion with an Aussie and a Brit when I had a moment of appreciation. I reflected back to my first month in Thailand where I barely spoke English for an entire month outside of what I was teaching in my classroom. Now, I can have many discussions with so many different farang.
Well, it is almost October and just one more week of class and then I can have my exciting break. I am cutting my traveling to just under a week, rather than the two weeks that I have been given for the break. However, it is going to be a packed few days and now that I have rustled up some American batteries, my camera should be able to last more than a day taking pictures. Well, that is all I have, nothing really super cool and exciting, but just a pleasant life.
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