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3 days ago"I consider your neural pathways to be worn through in all the wrong places."- Caroline (notimetosaygoodbye)
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Amen. This goes for iPods too.
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4 days ago
Guys…I’m still working on a post from Thailand.
I’ve got a lot to say! Or maybe not, I just have a lot of things going through my head and trying to organize them is proving difficult. I’ve been having a lot of writer’s block lately…I haven’t written anything substantial in more than a month :(
But I’m working on it, I promise. I’ll update y’all soon.
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3 weeks agoInsight: At Suu Kyi's rallies, signs of a new Myanmar
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3 weeks ago
The first two days…
I’ll post more later. Here are my journal entries from the first two days in Thailand…
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Thailand is so much fun! We flew in yesterday to Bangkok and then up to Chiang Rai (About an hour from the “Golden Triangle” of Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos). Last night was pretty much spent in getting settled in a little bit to the place where we are staying for two nights.
Today we toured. We went to a morning market for breakfast, ate lunch at a Thai restaurant at the Golden Triangle, and ate dinner at a night market. I am on the hunt for the perfect pineapple, to help me accomplish this I bought a swell knife. It’s about 12 inches long, and I will name it before I leave Thailand. I bought a new backpack too, because my old one broke almost as soon as we got to Taipei, right before we flew out. I was kinda upset, but it ended up okay.
They bargain for stuff here. Haggle. It’s kinda addicting…I could see myself spending a lot of time and money buying lots of things, just because it is so much fun to start haggling over a price until both people are happy. The backpack that I bought at the street market today is a good example. The lady selling it to me first asked for 1200 baht, and I countered with 500. She immediately dropped down to 900, I countered with 550. We went back and forth for a few more minutes, I started to walk out, she pulled me back, I ended up getting the backpack for 650 baht. The exchange rate right now is about 31 baht to 1 USD, almost the same as in Taiwan.
It’s been a good day. I’m looking forward to bargaining for breakfast in the morning.
Thoughts afterward…
I wandered into Myanmar (Burma) I think. I was wandering around the market, and there were signs as if I was crossing a border, but I never crossed a river. So I’m not sure, but I know that the market did span both sides of the border crossing, and it didn’t seem like it would be that hard to just walk through. I got within 5 feet of the border crossing without even paying attention, and there wasn’t even a fence or anything to stop me. Cool stuff.
Monday, January 16, 2012
We taught at the school for the first time today. It’s a school for Taiwanese and Chinese kids (or Taiwanese/Chinese descent), so most of them speak Chinese and Thai, and then we are teaching them English. It was so much fun! More on the teaching later.
Before we got to the school, we went to the White Temple. It’s a temple, that is white. It was pretty incredible, and full of symbolism. Really full of spiritual darkness though. When we walked up to it, we had to walk by all this really dark stuff. Hands reaching up out of hell, monsters rising from the earth, a lot of stuff like that. All these hands, just reaching…some of them were flipping people off. All white, all painted white.
We crossed a bridge over all this stuff, and went into the temple. I think the symbolism was supposed to be that we were leaving hell and crossing a bridge into heaven. The inside of the temple was simple and beautiful, but if you turned around and looked behind the doors at the front, there were these murals on the walls that were…insane. I don’t even know how to describe them properly. Tons of different stuff. Paintings of pop references, the World Trade Center being bombed. A lot of stuff like that.
**Pictures following, along with more Thailand posts**
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