Sunday, June 10, 2007
All the news that's fit to block...
Hooray for fruit! I came home from the fruit stand with a full bag yesterday - you're looking at $2.20 worth, minus the mongosteen I ate as soon as I got home.In the current round of political squabbling here, it would seem free speech has definitely come out the loser. As a result, we currently can't view our own webpage, or any other Blogger site. YouTube is blocked, and Google is supposedly cooperating with the government (as they did in China) to censor search results. Political websites and websites of free speech projects (like the Tor project) have also been blocked. Also on the computer front, we're having some trouble with ours, so won't be as speedy on the replies as we have been.
In happier news, we had a whole truck-full of visitors from Phang Nga last weekend. A bunch of the crew from Kuraburi came down for a visit, and we hung out in Songkhla, ate too much seafood on Koh Yo, and took in the really extensive museum at the Institute for Southern Thai studies.
May 31st was a big Buddhist holiday here, and we celebrated by going to the temple with Pitt and P Noot. We weren't very smooth holding our lotus/candle/incense combo - Trevor burned the middle of his incense, and I kept dripping hot wax on my fingers, when my candle wasn't going out - but we made it around the temple three times under a lovely full moon.
Then we went and bought a motorcycle. We brought up with them over dinner the matter of the bike we were renting from their relative, and that it wasn't working out very well. Turns out someone had asked P Noot just that afternoon if she could sell a bike for them. We headed over for a look, decided it was a good deal, and bought a new (to us) bike.
It seems like there's a lot going on at home right now - weddings, parties, new babies, new opportunities. Congrats to all! It's easy for us to start thinking and talking a lot about home, and what's next... and forgetting about where we are and all the great opportunities we have right now. Both of us are still busy with the beginning of the new term. I'm starting to feel more competent all the time, and Trevor's learning lots of new tricks and enjoying the adventure, so we think it's going well. Thanks again to all the folks who sent us new music last month - we're really enjoying it!
It seems like there's a lot going on at home right now - weddings, parties, new babies, new opportunities. Congrats to all! It's easy for us to start thinking and talking a lot about home, and what's next... and forgetting about where we are and all the great opportunities we have right now. Both of us are still busy with the beginning of the new term. I'm starting to feel more competent all the time, and Trevor's learning lots of new tricks and enjoying the adventure, so we think it's going well. Thanks again to all the folks who sent us new music last month - we're really enjoying it!
