Mae Sot and Hanging around Tak

12/23/15 3:00 PM As I begin to write this I think about how half of my time teaching is already up. It is a good time to reflect on the past few months and to look ahead. Since arriving in Thailand I have travelled all over, met great people, began to learn to live in a new culture and learned what it takes to teach students here. Thailand is like no other place in the world. The people here are unbelievably friendly, understanding and happy. What...

Loy Krathong and Thanksgiving

Tuesday, December 1st 5:30 PM Three weekends ago I went on a hike with the other foreign teachers in Tak and a few visitors through Lang San, a nearby national park, to a small waterfall in the deepest part of the park. As I hiked I was struck by how a year before I would never have imagined that I would be spending Saturday afternoons journeying through Thai jungles in search of the perfect waterfall to swim under. I would never have guessed...

Life in Tak

Friday 11/12/15 3:00 PM The view from our porch The last week or so in Tak has been great, and I am really starting to feel settled in. Last weekend we stayed at home and had some friends come visit on Saturday night. We all went out for dinner and drinks Saturday night and it was a blast. This weekend we are going to a small waterfall near Tak, but will mostly be hanging out around here. Next weekend we are heading back to Chiang Mai for a Loi...

Phu Chi Fah and Chiang Rai

Tuesday 11/3/15 3:00 PM We have only been in Thailand for three weeks but it feels like it has been much longer because of everything that we’ve done. So far we have been to five major cities and a remote mountain on the northwestern border. Last week the work week was cut short because of a college entrance exam that was taking place at our school. On Tuesday we learned that class would be cancelled on Thursday and Friday, and that we would need...