Okay it’s official: I am a lousy blogger. The last month has been busy to say the least. I have developed a nice routine consisting of school, dinner, the gym, and some various social activities. The highlight of the last month was when my routine was interrupted by my birthday trip to Phuket and Koh Phi Phi over a long weekend. July 15th marked the start of Buddhist lent so all the schools were closed Friday and Monday. I, however, decided to leave a day earlier to save 3000 baht. A choice I have no regrets about making. I took the bus to Udon Thani, a town about an hour and a half north of Khon Kaen, and took a plane directly from there to Phuket. I was on edge the whole time expecting a mishap to happen like the last time I traveled but it never came. The flight was smooth as was the transportation to and from the airport. I was lucky enough to have a friend from home let me and the girls use her parents’ condo for the first three nights. The cond...
"..that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned.. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”