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Friday, May 18, 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
CAMBODIA AND ONWARDS
Katie graduated from her TESOL course!
To celebrate, we took a night bus to Cambodia for the weekend. Travis got road rash and Katie got a lung infection. 14 hours up and down over a pot-holed mud slide in an over-airconned bus will do that to ya. On the adventurous side of things.... we spent two days at Angkor Wat and surrounding temples. Angkor Wat is the second of the 7 wonders we've seen in our travels so far. There's a lot more to Angkor Wat than most people know (for details, ask in person). They say that in Cambodia, everyone smiles with a broken heart. And it's so true. The corruption thrives, the disease is rampant, and the war-torn history is still alive in the eyes of the Cambodians. It's impossible to visit without feeling saddness and guilt about what the US did to Cambodia. As breathtaking as it was, we were glad to get back to the creature comforts of home... Thailand that is.
So onward and upward to our new home in Kohn Kaen, in Northeastern Thailand (see map). We’ve only been living here a couple of days now, and we both love what we’ve seen of it so far. Katie is teaching kindergarten starting next week at Patanadek Bilingual Primary School. The real surprise came when Travis was offered a job teaching the three and four year olds... and he took it! Fancy that. Together we've been welcomed into this small family owned school community. They are arranging work visas for us. Our new digs are sweet, however cockroach infested. We’ve been put up in a two bed/two bath town house in a neighborhood with other teachers from the school. The house has two floors, two balconies, and a window-box garden for Travis to nurture his green thumb. Now that we’re both kid-fessionals, we have set up an office and feel quite excited (and terribly nervous) for the new school year to start next week. Stay tuned…
To celebrate, we took a night bus to Cambodia for the weekend. Travis got road rash and Katie got a lung infection. 14 hours up and down over a pot-holed mud slide in an over-airconned bus will do that to ya. On the adventurous side of things.... we spent two days at Angkor Wat and surrounding temples. Angkor Wat is the second of the 7 wonders we've seen in our travels so far. There's a lot more to Angkor Wat than most people know (for details, ask in person). They say that in Cambodia, everyone smiles with a broken heart. And it's so true. The corruption thrives, the disease is rampant, and the war-torn history is still alive in the eyes of the Cambodians. It's impossible to visit without feeling saddness and guilt about what the US did to Cambodia. As breathtaking as it was, we were glad to get back to the creature comforts of home... Thailand that is.
So onward and upward to our new home in Kohn Kaen, in Northeastern Thailand (see map). We’ve only been living here a couple of days now, and we both love what we’ve seen of it so far. Katie is teaching kindergarten starting next week at Patanadek Bilingual Primary School. The real surprise came when Travis was offered a job teaching the three and four year olds... and he took it! Fancy that. Together we've been welcomed into this small family owned school community. They are arranging work visas for us. Our new digs are sweet, however cockroach infested. We’ve been put up in a two bed/two bath town house in a neighborhood with other teachers from the school. The house has two floors, two balconies, and a window-box garden for Travis to nurture his green thumb. Now that we’re both kid-fessionals, we have set up an office and feel quite excited (and terribly nervous) for the new school year to start next week. Stay tuned…
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