Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand on Sep 19th, 2006 5 Comments »
At school some of the older kids had to write a paper about what they think happiness is. Some wrote, happiness is no school, good friends, holidays. One wrote, happiness is when you like every part of your life. What is happiness?
This thesaurus defines happiness as satisfaction
This dictionary…1. the […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand, Family on Sep 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Ok, my PLAN for this morning was great. I even went grocery shopping at 8 p.m. last night so that I would have more time to go to the GYM this morning. Workout and and burn some of those extra calories. As I said, that was the plan. Instead I spent over an hour at […]
Posted in Poems on Sep 17th, 2006 2 Comments »
He looks across the bar and catches her eye and can’t help him selfhe has to smile.She is so different. Her skin is color mocha and wrinkle freeHer black hair falls down her backWhere ever she goes, heads turn and eyes follow her.A longing is stirred, he misses her so muchwhy did she have to […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand, Family on Sep 16th, 2006 2 Comments »
It was my sons birthday yesterday. Sorry, didn’t get a pic of the cake.. completely forgot.,, but it was round, had a soccer guy on it kicking a ball. Looked nice for a 6 year old boy. We had a great party, very LOUD and I played games with them. Alot of games. Luckily my […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand, Chiang Mai on Sep 14th, 2006 4 Comments »
”As of the 1st of October…tourists from 41 designated countries can still enter Thailand without visas and stay for up to 30 days, but their entry stamps will be renewable twice at most for a maximum stay of 90 days. (unlike before you could do this endlessly)Tourists who stayed for 90 days must leave the […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand, Chiang Mai on Sep 13th, 2006 1 Comment »
Like most mothers I’m finding it hard to catch up with everything thats going on . I see new mums with babies and think to myself, wow, they have NO IDEA what they are in for. Now I have 3 children who are in school, 3 different classes, 3 different timetables. Don’t ask me why […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand on Sep 12th, 2006 No Comments »
While my Son5 is doing his homework, I’m trying to write this post… hmmm not easy…. so… to keep it short.. here a picture
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand on Sep 11th, 2006 3 Comments »
As I see it here are the social obligations of Thai people.
- Their King, to obey and respect him- Their parents, to obey, respect and care for them- Their brothers, sisters and other relatives. Care and protect.- Their children, to see that they do well, good hygiene, good education etc- Their teachers- respect and […]
Posted in Third Culture Kids, Global Nomad on Sep 8th, 2006 8 Comments »
Yes, we are expats. And still we dare call this ‘adopted’ country home. Some Thai people are very pleased we call their home, our home. Some wish all the farang would go back to where they came from. Some Swiss think we aren’t really appreciative enough of our passport country. So where is home? Can […]
Posted in Everyday Life in Thailand on Sep 7th, 2006 No Comments »
A few weeks ago some very nice people from the States were here and brought us books, CDs AND Bubble Yum. I haven’t found any in Chiang Mai yet and there is nothing like chewing on bubble gum and blowing a big bubble to make me feel younger Thanx so much Mrs. […]
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