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nobody@vox.com(Lee) — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:46:59 -0700

Got home four days ago. I think I was walking around in a daze the first couple days back. Everyone around me looks like me and is speaking my native language. This is very different... I also noticed everything seemed to get a lot bigger here. ...

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Summer

nobody@vox.com(Lee) — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:13:20 -0700

Wow, I've been really out of touch lately and I apologize for the lack of posts within the last two months. Is anyone still reading this? I'll try to do a quick recap of everything that I've been up to during my summer here in Thailand. Since gra...

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Eight months down...

nobody@vox.com(Lee) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:11:11 -0800

Two to go. Not that I'm counting down the time until my departure.. but I now do know the exact date that I leave the Land of the Smiles for America - May 19th. Nearly two months have flown by since my last post. Sorry everyone! So much has happe...

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Children's Day

nobody@vox.com(Lee) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:52:51 -0800

Last friday was "Wan Dek" or Children's Day in Thailand. So my Mom, my Mom's sister, and my grandfather decided to drive to a small primary school high in the mountains of Nan to meet the kids and hand out icecream to them to make them feel good ...

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My New Years Vacation

nobody@vox.com(Lee) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:21:58 -0800

I needed a break from life in small town Nan.. So for New Years I took a five hour bus to Chiang Mai and stayed for a week spending time with some of my Thai, American and Aussie friends. There I ate plenty of good food, watched movies, visted so...

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A Thailand Christmas

nobody@vox.com(Lee) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:23:46 -0800

Yesterday I celebrated my first Christmas in a foreign country. Christians are close to nonexistent here - 94.6% of the Thai population are Buddhist, 4.6% Muslim, and only 0.7% are Christian. I was away from my family, snow, Christmas trees, and ...

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5 Months

nobody@vox.com(Lee) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:30:38 -0800

Time flies when you set into an easy rythm. Day in and day out, week in and week out, it's all been blended together into one big wild Thailand adventure. I'm coming up on the halfway point of my stay here. It's been almost five months since I to...

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I just got beaten up by a woman...

nobody@vox.com(Lee) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:35:21 -0800

And she was a slightly overweight, middle-aged Thai woman to top it all. After she kneed me repeatedly in the back, jabbed my kidney's with her thumbs and almost ripped my hair out she demanded money from me. And I obliged gratefully. I'll have ...

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Boat Racing Festival

nobody@vox.com(Lee) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:28:01 -0800

Every year my town, Nan, has a big Boat Racing Festival in Nan River. People come from all over to see this and Nan has been packed with traffic for a week or two. Many extra outdoor markets were set up as well, selling the oddest things such as ...

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AFS Trip to Nanoi

nobody@vox.com(Lee) — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:09:34 -0800

Just got back from a two day excursion to Nanoi with six other six-month AFS Community Service people, a couple teachers from my school, and P Orm from the AFS office in Bangkok. We stayed at a cabin high in the mountains of the amazing Nan Nati...

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