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taking stock... i do not know what it is about tracey chapman but i listen to her and i am suddenly very pensive. and inspired.
i am sitting here, at 5 pm. emailing. taher is outside playing tennis but i am skipping the workout today. we have recently begun to use the pool on campus for our workouts- since we have no change of seasons here, the 5 pm sun is scorching and the water feels wonderful.
the music is filling the room as i read messages from friends and family, and write responses. i feel peaceful and happy- i feel appreciative of the people in my life, i miss them. but also i recognize, once again, what a unique opportunity this is. living in bangkok. with taher. away from it all.
perfection? no, not really- the job is not perfect. the weather is not perfect. but on the job, there are kids who make me smile, who make me laugh- who make me an excellent teacher. as for the weather, we are blessed with plenty of cool breezes that come from nowhere but change the world in a few sweet seconds.
what have we been up to? this post needs some content, i suppose. ah, yesterday we went to the Dusit Zoo. a zoo like any other, really. nothing all that special. we spent all of our time there looking for only three animals- a serow, a gaur, and a banteng. the others, lions and monkeys and rhinos, we barely glanced at in our quest. we were really only there to find the aforementioned "weird ones". we found the serow's habitat but he must have been inside because we never saw him. as for the gaur and the banteng, we never did find them. we knew they were there because our Lonely Planet told us so, but sigh. mission not accomplished. i did look them up on the internet, however. the serow looks like a deer, the gaur looks like a bison, and the banteng looks like a big cow. i know, i know, i shouldn't familiarize the unfamiliar- never, ever liken a serow to a deer. it has its own serow identity.
but i have to admit, looking for them at the zoo, and just now on the internet, i was expecting some crazy otherworldly creatures. a gaur! i wonder how many legs that has! i bet only three! a banteng? yeah, i bet that's like an octopus except with lungs! yeah!
no such luck. deer and cows. looking for the farm animals was great fun, at any rate.
taking stock... i do not know what it is about tracey chapman but i listen to her and i am suddenly very pensive. and inspired.
i am sitting here, at 5 pm. emailing. taher is outside playing tennis but i am skipping the workout today. we have recently begun to use the pool on campus for our workouts- since we have no change of seasons here, the 5 pm sun is scorching and the water feels wonderful.
the music is filling the room as i read messages from friends and family, and write responses. i feel peaceful and happy- i feel appreciative of the people in my life, i miss them. but also i recognize, once again, what a unique opportunity this is. living in bangkok. with taher. away from it all.
perfection? no, not really- the job is not perfect. the weather is not perfect. but on the job, there are kids who make me smile, who make me laugh- who make me an excellent teacher. as for the weather, we are blessed with plenty of cool breezes that come from nowhere but change the world in a few sweet seconds.
what have we been up to? this post needs some content, i suppose. ah, yesterday we went to the Dusit Zoo. a zoo like any other, really. nothing all that special. we spent all of our time there looking for only three animals- a serow, a gaur, and a banteng. the others, lions and monkeys and rhinos, we barely glanced at in our quest. we were really only there to find the aforementioned "weird ones". we found the serow's habitat but he must have been inside because we never saw him. as for the gaur and the banteng, we never did find them. we knew they were there because our Lonely Planet told us so, but sigh. mission not accomplished. i did look them up on the internet, however. the serow looks like a deer, the gaur looks like a bison, and the banteng looks like a big cow. i know, i know, i shouldn't familiarize the unfamiliar- never, ever liken a serow to a deer. it has its own serow identity.
but i have to admit, looking for them at the zoo, and just now on the internet, i was expecting some crazy otherworldly creatures. a gaur! i wonder how many legs that has! i bet only three! a banteng? yeah, i bet that's like an octopus except with lungs! yeah!
no such luck. deer and cows. looking for the farm animals was great fun, at any rate.
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