The past two weeks have been very intense and busy. Last week was Christmas Play week at school. This was a very big deal, since the ONLY thing I have been working on with my students since November 1st is the Christmas play. We wrote the script, memorized the lines, made props, and practiced the […]
Wandering Footsteps: Wandering the World One Step at a Time » A travel journal following a family on their overland trip around the world.
Category Archives: Asia I have someone special sitting on my lap. Nope, it’s not a boyfriend – it’s a cat!I found him on November 24th when I was coming home from school. He was sitting on the sidewalk and was so tiny and scrawny that he caught my attention. I went to pet him and all I could […] I just wanted to assure everyone who might be worried about me that I am fine. Yes, things seem to have escalated a notch here in Bangkok, but where I am, life continues as normal, as though nothing was wrong. I didn’t even know that the airport had been taken over until last night, about […]  After returning to Bangkok from Southern Thailand, I immediately embarked on my journey to Laos. This involved a 13 hour train trip from Bangkok to the border, followed by a border crossing and then a one hour ghetto-bus ride to Vientiane, the capital. Because I had just returned to Bangkok, I did not book a […] This past Saturday was the cremation of the King’s sister, Princess Galyano. She actually died this past January (she was fairly old), but they didn’t cremate her until this Saturday because this was determined to be the auspicious day. Odd.Friday all the teachers had to wear black, and there was a long 45-minute ceremony to […] |
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