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I thought I'd plug an awesome blog. I used to go to school with the writer, though we were never really close. We had a few classes together, but nothing special.
Anyways, the blog is her account of living in Bangkok. She's going to school and commuting back and forth from the Baan Dada child charity home on the border of Thailand and Burma. From what I know, she's been volunteering there as well as going to school. Some of it's quirky and funny, while other parts are just heartbreaking (mostly parts about the children she works with). It's really interesting to read, but maybe that's just because I like travel writing.
There's a little excerpt here:
It's not everyday that one is casually strolling around their university campus and has to dodge an alligator. Or something closely resembling an alligator. Okay actually maybe closer to a kamodo dragon..but still it was a giant lizard and I had to dodge it. And by dodge it I mean I was walking on a raised cement bridge and it was on the river bank. But it was HUGE. Okay..maybe just big. Well it was about 1.5 metres. Is that huge for a lizard? I think so.
...I sat in my seat, not yet relaxed because I didnt know if this bus would connect to the last one leaving for the village, sticky with perspiration and red from the sun. When we arrived in Kanchanaburi I ran to the minivan station and the bus driver happened to have gone to the bathroom, delaying the departure of the last minivan about 1 minute…just enough time for me to arrive and make it. How do you spell that sound you make when you are really relieved? Phewf? thats how I felt. Sweet: making the last van and not having to spend the night in Kanchanaburi. Even more sweet: being able to sprawl out on a straw matt in the middle of the jungle with a couple of lice-ridden jungle instead of a stuffy hotel room.
Check it out.
In completely unrelated news, I've been chain watching the office. I started less than a month ago and I'm already caught up (on season six!). It's so random and ridiculous while never really going over the edge-- or at least, I don't think so. Then again, I just really love dry humour. I may just be tired, but this hasn't failed to make me laugh yet:
Anyways, the blog is her account of living in Bangkok. She's going to school and commuting back and forth from the Baan Dada child charity home on the border of Thailand and Burma. From what I know, she's been volunteering there as well as going to school. Some of it's quirky and funny, while other parts are just heartbreaking (mostly parts about the children she works with). It's really interesting to read, but maybe that's just because I like travel writing.
There's a little excerpt here:
It's not everyday that one is casually strolling around their university campus and has to dodge an alligator. Or something closely resembling an alligator. Okay actually maybe closer to a kamodo dragon..but still it was a giant lizard and I had to dodge it. And by dodge it I mean I was walking on a raised cement bridge and it was on the river bank. But it was HUGE. Okay..maybe just big. Well it was about 1.5 metres. Is that huge for a lizard? I think so.
...I sat in my seat, not yet relaxed because I didnt know if this bus would connect to the last one leaving for the village, sticky with perspiration and red from the sun. When we arrived in Kanchanaburi I ran to the minivan station and the bus driver happened to have gone to the bathroom, delaying the departure of the last minivan about 1 minute…just enough time for me to arrive and make it. How do you spell that sound you make when you are really relieved? Phewf? thats how I felt. Sweet: making the last van and not having to spend the night in Kanchanaburi. Even more sweet: being able to sprawl out on a straw matt in the middle of the jungle with a couple of lice-ridden jungle instead of a stuffy hotel room.
Check it out.
In completely unrelated news, I've been chain watching the office. I started less than a month ago and I'm already caught up (on season six!). It's so random and ridiculous while never really going over the edge-- or at least, I don't think so. Then again, I just really love dry humour. I may just be tired, but this hasn't failed to make me laugh yet:
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