Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand on Aug 31st, 2005 1 Comment »
My youngest son is at home today. He woke me up at 6 am and talked non stop. When I touched him I thought he was unusually hot. I measured his temperature and sure enough, he has 37, 8C and when I measured it about an hour later it was up to 38, 6 […]
Posted in Third Culture Kids, Global Nomad on Aug 30th, 2005 2 Comments »
In his book Third Culture Kids David Pollock writes what some of these hidden losses are,All of us experience losses in our life. A lot of the losses are hidden
and we almost don’t notice them. I think that people who are not TCKs
go through these things as well. Refugees go through this.Loss of their […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand on Aug 29th, 2005 2 Comments »
We had an interesting Sunday. I decided to clean out my shelf with all my vases … there was (what I thought was gecko poop) EVERYWHERE So as I was cleaning my daughter came in and told me that she saw 2 mice in the morning.. in the hamster cage. Well…. we ended up […]
Posted in Third Culture Kids, Global Nomad on Aug 29th, 2005 1 Comment »
At the book club yesterday we discussed the book ‘Third-Culture Kids.’ We are all mothers of ‘TCKs and two of us mums grew up in Asia. One lady asked, why do Global Nomads want to be the same as the other people? I think this is a big issue for mainly teenagers and because most […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand on Aug 28th, 2005 1 Comment »
Yesterday I bought a 3 liter box of Franzia Calafornia Red wine. Now I get to drink red wine off the tap. How cool is that? we can’t even drink water from the tap here…. Needless to say my husband and I had a very relaxing and fun evening last night lol
Posted in Third Culture Kids, Global Nomad on Aug 26th, 2005 No Comments »
Well, I am going down memory lane… look at these pictures. These are the people of the place where I grew up…. The Huli people in Tari.
For 16 years this was normal. The women didn’t wear tops eather.. Dedorant? no topic in the jungle.Hair? yes.. wigs were totally fashion […]
Posted in Third Culture Kids, Global Nomad on Aug 26th, 2005 2 Comments »
My brother is planning a trip back to PNG. Today I got a mail… apparently the name of the place where the international school is, is called Walimali. Just past Walidege. Tari,Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea.I don’t know how long its been since I’ve heard or read those words ! I lived there for more […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand, Deutsch Sprachige Seite on Aug 25th, 2005 1 Comment »
There are terrible floods in Switzerland and all of Europe. I’m far away but I know alot of my readers are effected by the floods. Could you write and tell me how you are effected? I’d appreciate that!
Im moment gibts riesige Überschwemmungen in der Schweiz und in Europa. Ich bin weit weg von allem […]
Posted in Inspirational on Aug 25th, 2005 No Comments »
”You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand on Aug 24th, 2005 2 Comments »
Today, front page in Bangkok Post. In short the government is looking for ways to bring peace in the violence ridden south. One of the suggestions the parties came up with, is to ask for donations of TV sets so that , I guess, instead of doing something stupid the ‘unruly youths’ will use their time […]
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