The first week of second semester has already come and gone. I am now on the downhill side of my time here in Thailand. I know that if I had opted to do five months I would not be ready to go home. It was a challenging but extremely rewarding five months of teaching and I cannot wait to have five more! On Wednesday, T. Duey invited me to have dinner at her house with her family and the Thai teachers from Anuban Khon Kaen School. T. Duey’s house is in the middle of the city not far from the school. It is the most beautiful house I have seen in Thailand so far. The dinner was delicious and the company was great. I met T. Duey’s husband, her 20-year old daughter and her 23-year old son. Her husband is a wonderful cook. He made homemade pad Thai and for desert T. Duey made homemade mango sticky rice with mangoes from her mango tree. I felt so happy to have been invited into her home for a delicious, authentic Thai dinner par...
"..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.”