So, I'm finally back in Yasothon, where it looks like I will stay for the next 3 weeks. The plan is I'm to work at a primary school to help teach english here with a teacher. Should be fun, after working with kids for the past 5 days, I've really grown to love it ( Read more... )

At a school in Ubon. It took like 20 minutes to load this page, so I'll be lucky if it posts this when I'm done typing ( Read more... )

Going to an English camp in Ubon with Hilary and Shawn to work as camp counselors. Will be gone for a couple days, until either Sunday or Monday, or perhaps later. AFS Thailand still hasn't told me where I'm going yet for community service, but if they call my cell phone and tell me, there are plenty of internet cafes in downtown Ubon where I can ( Read more... )

So, a lot has happened in the past couple of days. I realised that it wasn't fair that I had to sit in a library, alone, teaching myself things I would be able to learn back home. I also realised I wasn't willing to go to classes where the curriculum would be the level of a third graders (if you think I'm exaggerating, I'm not. It's absurd.) So, I' ( Read more... )

Hello everyone ( Read more... )

So, I experienced a strange new phenomena today ( Read more... )

School starts tomorrow, and apparently there is no air conditioning or fans except in the library, where I plan to build a tiny fort out of books and refuse to come out of it unless offered strawberry banana smoothies and other frozen treats of the sort ( Read more... )

Shawn and his family came over today to visit for awhile. They were astounded by the size of our house, which is bigger than the average american home, even. We went out to eat noodles, and walked around the market place. There were live frogs, headless chickens, live tadpoles, fish, baby chickens dyed different colors. It was just...so damn sad ( Read more... )

I've seen a couple of things on VH1 today that I found totally disturbing. Below is a blurb about the injustice/absurdity of each:

1. Paris Hilton's music video - Okay, so obviously, Paris Hilton is not actually singing. But before you say, "Well, DUH, Ramona, it's a music video, no one really sings. " Au contraire, my doubtful friend! Paris ( Read more... )

The dial up at my house is so slow, my livejournal won't even show up. I was scared for a minute that someone had come along and deleted it, and really the only contact I have to it is by updating ( Read more... )