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How often do I ever meet any ambassador from any country? Well, until a few weeks ago it was never. A few days into our trip we all went over to the new U.S. embassy in Yangon and met with Mr. Larry Dinger, who is the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires for Myanmar. Because of various policy [...]
What we do with many of the books we bring in is give them to the Buddhist monks. I’m not sure whether we make any merit in the Buddhist sense, but many temples in Myanmar have libraries that house our books and are used by their communities. The monks also distribute the books to these [...]
(Usually all the pictures here are mine, but videos and a few pictures taken by board member Hector Rivas were too good to leave out in this and a few following posts. Click on active words in the text to view the videos.) We took a two day trip in a van to the city [...]
Two weeks ago Sue and I got back from seven days in Myanmar, our fourth trip, and I finally have some time to write about it. The theme of this blog is coming to Thailand and the things that happen here, but one great thing to do when coming here is to take a side [...]
Sue and I got back from Myanmar after a few adventures there that I will write about soon. Sue had to go off to India for a short time for teacher training and I am back up in Nang Rong. It is good to be back. With November starting it is definitely cooling off. It [...]
One thing any Thai in Isaan knows is where to get the best Som Tam. If there is one particular food that they eat here it is Som Tam. It’s main ingredient is green (we westerners would say unripe – but what do we know?) shredded papayas. Some other ingredients I can remember are prik [...]
Sue and I are getting ready to leave October 6th for Thailand. We have done this enough that it is pretty easy for us now, but I did call our county health department, where we get most our vaccinations, to see if we were up to date. Everything was OK with nothing to do this [...]
Well, I finally visited a local Thai restaurant. That is not unusual in Nang Rong, where virtually all restaurants are Thai restaurants. In this case, however, I was in North Idaho in the U.S. where Sue and I spend summer. A Thai restaurant opened its doors here a year ago. My daughter in law Add, [...]
The CNN news story today about Guatemala is the worst adoption abuse I have yet seen. International adoption can be great for a child with few other options, but the temptation for some to abuse this system is so great A local adoption occurs when a child of Thais that is adopted within Thailand usually to [...]
No, we try not to talk like that here at the foundation. Mark Twain said that. Well, it happened again. The latest incidence of an NGO or its personnel wildly inflating problems or statistics to gain attention or to focus the world on the importance the problem they address. I have some interest in Myanmar [...]
