While I was in Lopburi hanging with the monkeys, a national geographic camera crew was in the area and filming the monkeys. I guess these guys saw that my glasses got stolen and that the monkeys were crawling all over me and liked that. They interviewed me and asked some questions about the whole situation. [...]

There are those places that everyone reads and knows about before traveling to Thailand like Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and Phuket.  Then there are those places that you hear about once you get to Thailand that you just have to go to like Pai and Koh Chang.  Every country have those.. well, secret places that very [...]

“Planet of the Apes” is a movie that comes to mind when you visit Lopburi, Thailand.  Humans are slaves to these beasts. Monkeys rule this town.  They roam around the town and even climb on the apartments and the phone wires.  On the last weekend of November, eight of us planned a trip to Lopburi, [...]

2009.11.27 – UPDATE on MOvember Stache It is getting close to the end of the month and the stache is coming in real nice.  I know that my stache will be the winner in a couple of days.  I have been bad at keeping an update on it so here is a pic about 3 [...]

Moving to the other side of the world is great for so many different reasons and one of them is learning about the different cultures.  I work with a couple of Australian blokes and it is great because I get to learn about new words and customs.  For example, no American uses “bloke” to talk [...]

Anna and I had a lot planned for our October break.  We had The Gibbons Experience in Laos, Chiang Mai, and a small town in the middle of the mountains called Pai.  Chiang Mai has a special place in my heart.  In 2006, I studied abroad at a university called Payap University.  It was here [...]

Before I even got to Thailand, Annie told me about this thing called The Gibbons Experience.  What she told me was that: a) we would have to go to Lao and b) would be zip lining and living in tree houses for 3 days.  Zip lining in Lao!!!!  How safe could that be?  I told [...]

Apparently in Thailand we do not just celebrate the Thai holidays, but the Chinese holidays. The Half Year was on September 7th. We went out with Annie’s Thai friend Gift. There was going to be a parade through the downtown area of Suphanburi. For most of the parade it was normal. Off in the distance [...]

I was asked to go to my first Thai funeral the other day by my boss. I was curious as to what goes on during a Thai funeral, so I wanted to go. Wipa, a woman I work with, unfortunately lost her mother, so we were going for her. We got picked up and went [...]

Day 1 For all of you wondering the name of my school is Sa-Nguan Ying School. I teach in the english department in the school. I have been teaching for about 3 weeks now and it has been interesting to say the least. The students know most of the math work that I have been [...]

I landed in Thailand on Thursday morning and that Friday Anna and I were out heading down to Koh Samet. The beautiful island in the south. So Friday night Annie and I got to Bangkok and we planned on staying for that night. We stayed at this hotel called The Key. The place was gorgeous. [...]

3 O’clock Tuesday June 30th. My dad is driving me to the airport. (First, I know that this is a little late. I have been lazy and vacationing so bare with me.) I actually was a little nervous. Why? I thought to myself. It could have been leaving a perfectly great teaching job at Midland [...]