Chiang Mai, Thailand
Jan - April 2002

Overview

After a richly rewarding experience with Heifer International Thailand in the last part of 2001, I (Scott) returned to Thailand to study Thai and continue to volunteer. It was a wonderful, yet sometimes lonesome experience, so in my spare time (while not otherwise busy pulling my hair out over Thai language's 5 tones), I kept an informal log of the experience. It helped pass the time, and in retrospect made for occasionally interesting reading.

Kathy joined me in late March, so you'll see the detail in the reports drops off fairly dramatically. It's more fun to interact with a person than a computer. Usually.

What's here? A day by day (up to a point) log of my 2.5 months in the "Rose of the North". If you wanted to start at the beginning, this is the first entry.

Scott made a brief trip back to Thailand and Singapore in the winter of 2003 and we returned to Thailand (and India) at the beginning of 2004 (again, to escape the "2004" winter. About that trip... here.

Songkran (4/11/2002-16) Retreat (4/10) [incomplete] Vet Camp (3/30) Do you see a plane? (3/28) Thai Movies (3/24) Home Stretch (3/22) Taxi Drivers (3/15) Literal Translation (3/11) A capella (2/24) Value, Values (2/26) On the Bus, the Sequel (2/27) Lessons Learned... on the road (3/2) Squid On A Stick (3/3) Khao San Road or Bust (3/8) Secret Agent (3/9) Pai. Wow. (2/17-2/19) (in 5 parts) Thai Ice Cream (2/21) Steamed Pork Blood (2/22) Thais Don't Walk (2/23) We Give More (musing) Havah Nagila (musing)

On the Bus (2/10) 

Kin Khao (2/11)

Slithering South (2/12) 

Stop, in the name of love (2/14) 

The Heavens Open (2/15) 

Scam and a Haircut, 9 bits (2/16) 

Involuntary Yoga (2/16)

Feb 3 (2/3) 

Feb 4 AUA Day (2/4) 

Thai Script (2/5) 

Transliteration (2/5) 

No vacation (2/7) 

Moment of Truth (2/8) 

Chiang Mai scenes I and II (2/9)

Random Musings

Die Yuppie Brie Eater! Contrasts We Give More Havah Nagila Thai Movies (3/24)

On Learning Thai

Wicked Things in Thai "Kaw Kai" and His 74 Friends (3/2) Thai Script Transliteration