Teacher! Teacher!

Mr. John! Mr. John! TOILET! Mr. Jooohnn! TOILET!
His hands firmly grasping his crotch, he shuffles toward the door with a sheepish, embarrassed, hurried and pleading look. He needs to the use the restroom right now.
::sigh:: I’m mid-sentence.
“Yes, you may use the restroom.”
He releases his grip on himself and rushes to the door, his wood-soled shoes [...]

Deep in it.

I haven’t been writing as much lately because, frankly, I haven’t been doing much other than teaching. I’ve decided to stay for another term beginning in October and I’ll have a few weeks off then. I’m planning on traveling then, but to where, I’m not sure yet…
I’m thinking about seeing more of Thailand, but I’m [...]

An afternoon in Bangkok.

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Right now I’m laying on my bed, writing. It’s just after six in the afternoon. I opened the panes of glass facing out and I rolled back the small window to the hall, and now a nice breeze drifts though.
From eight floors up I smell the cooking from the street. While the fragrant smell of [...]

Kanchanaburi: end of the trip…for now.

I’m definitely coming back to Kanchanaburi when I have extended time off in October. I’m not sure exactly how long yet, but I will be coming back to just sit on this magnificent porch and fish, read, write, and maybe do a few oil pastel drawings too.

Kanchanaburi: Falls, Elephants, Rafts and the Death Railway.

We got up early and caught the tour bus out to Erawan Falls, a national park about 60 km outside of Kanchanaburi.
The national park features a seven-tiered waterfall that you can swim around, jump off of or just lounge around in, plus the hiking trail used to access the different tiers:

 

Kanchanaburi: “Old Florida” Sanctuary.

Later that night, following the amazing banquet at my school, I met up with Ryan and Ian, who were all ready on the streets around Khao San Road. After we got together, we had ourselves a good ‘ol fashion KSR bloodbath and turned in for the night around three the next morning. 
With plans to catch [...]

Welcome freshmen!

This past Friday I met up with my friends Ian and Ryan, two teachers from Phuket, and we hit Bangkok hard. It was their first night in town.
I ended up drinking too much and almost missed my first of three three-hour classes, but I made it on time with one minute to spare.

Day to Day.

I’ve more or less settled into a nice routine here in Bangkok and I thought I’d share with you guys who were curious about the rote day-to-day experiences I have.
6:00 a.m. -the alarm on my phone goes off. At this point, when looking at the snooze ‘menu’ on my phone, should I select the up-and-at-’em [...]

Change of pace.

I’ve really enjoyed writing a sort of serial account of my first experiences in Bangkok and beyond, but I’d like to move into shorter and more frequent accounts of my day-to-day activities. From this post on, I’ll try and update as close to daily as I can. For this post though, I’ll give you a [...]

Phuket, via Surat Thani.

Naturally I dozed off maybe half an hour before we arrived at the bus transfer.
Still, I didn’t know there was going to be a bus transfer…
Our urban leviathan pulled off the freeway and wound through what turned out to be the outskirts of Surat Thani, a coastal town on the western side of the “brain [...]