Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand on Aug 24th, 2005 No Comments »
The kids have started school again. My daughter is in 5th Grade ‘Realschule’ and my oldest son is in 3rd grade and my youngest in Kindergarten. To be honest I was glad to see them go this morning. Sounds a bit mean, doesn’t it but 7 weeks of non stop child-caring is a long time. […]
Posted in Chiang Mai on Aug 22nd, 2005 3 Comments »
Chiang Mai experienced the worst floods in 40 years. And we were out of town! We got loads of telephone calls from concerned friends who had heard, or seen that our area was underwater. Luckily our house was spared. The water only came about 1 meter close to our house which really is nothing. Our […]
Posted in Poems, Inspirational on Aug 21st, 2005 3 Comments »
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;Be kind anyway.If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;Succeed anyway.If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;Be honest and frank anyway.What you spend years building, someone […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand on Aug 21st, 2005 No Comments »
SOOOO sorry I haven’t writen for a while week. I’m very very embarressed. Yes, there was flooding in Chiang Mai. Terrible floods ! I’ll write more about that soon.. but I just want to let you know, I’m back online and doing good !!
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand on Aug 11th, 2005 No Comments »
My son and I took Tae Kwan Do lessons for a while. Unfortunately he stopped after he did his blue belt test and I did my green belt. We took lessons at Charerntham Tae Kwan Do at Chiang Mai Land, under Master Young Jin Lee. We really enjoyed it and now I’ve some basics to […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand on Aug 10th, 2005 2 Comments »
Today I woke up at 8 am to the smell of coffee, that my dear husband brought me to bed. Definitely the best way to start the day. I dropped in at the gym but only had 45 min before I had to head home to cook lunch for my three kids and their two […]
Posted in Third Culture Kids, Global Nomad on Aug 9th, 2005 5 Comments »
I’ve just started reading the Third Culture Kids by David C. Pollak and Ruth E. Van Reken . Amazon has the book.So far I skipped a lengthy foreword, Acknowledgments , Introduction and the chapter A Beginning Word by Ruth E. Van Reken.Not really a good sign when you skip the first 10 pages.. oh well.. […]
Posted in Chiang Mai on Aug 9th, 2005 No Comments »
There are new signs all over town. Big blue signs that say.. Chiang Mai Night Safari. Quite exciting if you think of it. A friend of mine saw a helicopter picture of it and its one big mud hole. Apparently it was supposed to open last year.. well the signs are up and who knows. […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand, Chiang Mai on Aug 8th, 2005 1 Comment »
School holidays are tiring for a mum. Kids around 24/7. Yesterday we went to this cool mini golf called ”Putt Putt” . Apparently the designers of the mini golf are from the Netherlands. The whole mini golf has a very international setting. From Austria, going through Switzerland, Canada, America, Australia, Japan, […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand, Deutsch Sprachige Seite, Tsunami -Thailand on Aug 6th, 2005 No Comments »
An unbelievable amount of money has been given to us to pass on to Tsunami Victims in the south of Thailand. We have been able to give almost all of it away. For orphanages, Memebercare Center, etc. etc. But we still have some money left. So my husband was talking with a Thai pastor […]
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