Author Archives: B.Y.O.T.P (Bring your own toilet paper)..and other lessons learned while trotting the globe

Dear America, I couldn’t get much sleep last night thinking about you. I would like to say that I was thinking of your finer parts: the Blue Ridge Mountains, bluegrass music, hugging my parents, contributing to your public education system, … Continue reading →

Yesterday after school, Kelly and Neung took us on a little tour of Bang Saen to see some places that are only reachable by car–(they recently got a car!). So, our first stop was this really amazing and really massive … Continue reading →

My main man, Bob Dylan, has written a lot of amazing things. But some of my all time favorite lyrics come from his song “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”, (please allow me to serenade you now): My love she speaks like … Continue reading →

Well, Jaime and I are entering our last full month of living and teaching in Thailand… and what an adventure it’s been.  The last day of work at our school will be March 30th and from then on we’ll spend … Continue reading →

Thought I should do a quick post on what turned out to be an incredible Valentine’s! We had to come into work this weekend, so we went to Bangkok last weekend and celebrated Valentine’s then. We had an amazing time, … Continue reading →

After a funny day at school, I realized we have not written one blog post about our students and teaching. To be honest, that’s partially because on most days, all we could write would be complaints. And no one likes … Continue reading →

Ever since we got to Thailand, one of the most popular questions I get from people back home is about the food. Is it good? Is it like the food in the Thai restaurants in the States? Is it really … Continue reading →

Passage to Thailand! Lo, soul, seest thou not God’s purpose from the first? The earth to be spann’d, connected by network, The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage, The oceans to be cross’d, the distant brought near, … Continue reading →

Yesterday we had a meeting at school to fill us in on important events coming up soon. Open house in January, final exams in February, and school ends in March. Our time here in Chonburi is quickly coming to a … Continue reading →

As you probably know by now, I have a travel bug. I’m not sure when I got it, I think it might have been when I studied abroad in college. I don’t remember a time before that when I just … Continue reading →