April, 2007

Songkran is the Thai New Year celebration, which lands on April 13-16. I really had no idea what this festival entailed. At school we had a little celebration, which included a morning ceremony, games, and an afternoon water fight. The morning ceremony had many of the student’s parents in attendance. Students lined up to pour [...]

I freaking HATE stray dogs. Anyone who was with me in Oaxaca, Mexico can attest to this. Despite nearly wiping my face with a towel that had a gecko on it, getting attacked by two birds that were trapped in my office, and being eaten alive by copious amounts of mosquitoes, it’s dogs that I [...]

I would just like to set the record straight (this word was used intentionally). My last post was an April fools joke. I assume my reading audience was smart enough to recognize this, but I did forget to factor in font and size into my joke. Line 10 word 13, line 15, word 10, and [...]

I made an awful decision last night. I went out for some fun in Bangkok with my friends. We started out with some sangsom (rum) and then went to whiskey and finished the night with tequilla. There was a group of four Thai girls across the room in another booth. After enough liquid confidence we [...]