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Some of Mae Chan’s girls by her house. House one is behind it to the left. The wood pole sticking up on the left is to hold the line for temporary power for construction of the fourth house up off the road. This is the last post for a month. Sue and I leave for [...]
22 KV lines coming into Opportunity Village I have not had time to make any posts until now. Sue just took off this morning for three weeks in India. She will be evaluating teachers in the slum school and setting up for the next school year. She returns in three weeks. I have been getting [...]
Our first child home is progressing. Sue and I are now back in the U.S. We find that tax time is always a good time to be back. Most of our bills get paid by auto deductions from bank accounts, but piles of mail, a few pieces of which is actually important, have built up [...]
The first picture was taken at night just as I left my landlord’s house. This elephant goes around Nang Rong in the evening with a reflector tied to his tail, stopping at the restaurants. Since the restaurants are open to the outside, the elephant just comes up close, but not close enough to grab anything [...]
I just got back from Bangkok last night. I had heard it had cooled off here while I was gone. I have not used the air conditioning in my house yet, and had to have my blanket, which is more like a big beach towel, last night. This morning was the first time I really [...]
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 [...]