Tag Archives: teaching
February: Playing with Fire, etc.
Back in Vientiane, Term 1 has been chugging along like a refurbished tuk-tuk; it’s moving faster than usual, more smoothly than before, but is still not immune to the occasional pothole that rattles its newly painted frame. While I don’t … Continue reading
2012: Back from Borneo
January is halfway over, and I’m long overdue to refresh my blog. Two weeks ago, I said goodbye to my dad at the Suvarnibhumi airport, and since then, life has been a whirlwind of nametags and icebreaker games. Has it … Continue reading
Happy Halloween!
Laos is a country familiar with ghosts. From my conversations with friends and students over the past year, I’ve gotten the impression that nearly everyone, at least a tiny bit, believes in pii–in ghosts or spirits. Naturally, some of those … Continue reading
Changing Seasons, Changing Houses
Though there’s much more to be said about my trip to Australia, life in Vientiane continues to pass by quicker than you can say bo mak kin tin gai (I don’t like to eat chicken feet). So I’ll interrupt the … Continue reading
Term 3: Changes
My return from July travels with my mom marked the beginning of a new era of my life here in Vientiane. When I came back, the two new Vientiane College fellows, Mike and Charlotte, had arrived, making me officially a … Continue reading
Term 2: Halfway There
Time is passing quickly at Vientiane College. Since the Pi Mai celebrations that kicked off the beginning of term, the first half of Term 2 has sped by. Midterms are past, and there are only a few weeks of term … Continue reading
The Past 2 Weeks
School has only been in session for two days and already the recent holiday seems like it was ages ago. It started with a 3-day jaunt to Chiang Mai (which I visited before in January), in northern Thailand, with some … Continue reading
Meanwhile
It’s taken me so long to recount the stories of my winter break travels that two whole months have passed here in Vientiane, in which: -My housemate and I challenged ourselves to spend only $20 each on food for one … Continue reading
A Nan Weekend
January 7-10: Nan My bus from Chiang Rai wound its way through the mountains surrounding Nan, making pit stops along the way so the driver could bargain for rice with farmers on the side of the road. Finally, I arrived … Continue reading
Final Report: End of Term
In some ways it seems like a lifetime ago that I was sitting at the Lao cafe next to Vientiane College quietly panicking about standing up in front of a classroom for the first time. Yet in others, in seems … Continue reading