Our Community

One wouldn't ever need to leave our little community of Nichada Thani, here in Thailand.  Today I visited the clinic, with a friend who had an earache, which is right next to the dentist office and the bank.  I worked out this morning I used the high school weight room, stopped at the small (expensive) grocery store called Villa and discovered a little "weekend market" which apparently occurs once a month.  Venders included local artists, furniture, jewelry and antiques. My snack yesterday was a Starbucks and today it was at "twist" which is a scaled down version of jamba juice.

We live with people from all over the world.  Today in the grocery store there was a family from Holland, the children both had on wooden clogs!  A child's home country is usually the second sentence when meeting someone new.  In my classroom I have students from Australia, Israel, Sweden, Idonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Canada and the U.S. 

Mickey is one busy girl, she had school yesterday, after school choir practice, stopped by for dinner and then went to a friend's house for a sleepover.  She appeared today for 10 minutes- to get some money for a shopping trip with the same friend.  It was good to see her tonight for dinner, and tomorrow she is going to be at birthday party, poolside.

Ahnika and I went to the Home store yesterday to look at paint samples. ( We did have to take a taxi outside of our little bubble) I think we will have her room painted first. I am considering painting our family room a light yellow color and the dining area a gentle orange?  is that possible, a gentle orange? 
One teacher said that she had her family room painted for $35, sounds like the right price to me.


when we were at the Home store, there was an american family walking around, meandering the aisles looking a tad bit overwhelmed.  They were buying the basics, microwave, iron, laundry soap, towels...
I said, Hello, and they all smiled at me quickly and said hello. 
"New here?"
"Yep just got in yesterday, " 

It did make me feel that we have accomplished a lot in the last 6 weeks- think of how we will feel in another 6 weeks- especially after our fall break at the end of October!