http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/ thailand Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:00:01 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2006. http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/archive/68.html Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:41:36 GMT when i don't write for a while i suppose it means that life isn't very interesting. so for that reason i won't bore you with details of my fairly uninteresting present existence. but i do want to say that i went down to my local hospital last week, a good hospital, much more efficient that the old one, and had a few tests done for a second opinion on this whole endometriosis thing. and guess what i was told? apparently there is nothing wrong with me, and wochera prakarn hospital misdiagnosed it, and it was probably just an infection or something. of course this made me absolutely... (more) http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/comments?id=68 http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/archive/67.html Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:24:02 GMT So, a new teaching job. no complaints so far. The big news here at the moment is John Mark Carr, the 'beauty queen killer', who was arrested in his apartment in sathorn (down the road from mine) on wednesday. He was teaching grade 1 at my school for a couple of months from april, but was fired because he scared the kids. So today the school's been crawling with reporters, whom we're not allowed to talk to. The school, and the Ministry of Education, are trying to cover up the fact that he worked in Thailand, for fear of implying they don't do proper background checks, or that Thai schools... (more) http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/comments?id=67 http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/archive/66.html Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:59:10 GMT by the way, you'll find some new photos up if you click here, and some more here, and a few more here, too... http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/comments?id=66 http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/archive/65.html Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:05:30 GMT So, i passed the second interview with the board-of-director-fuddy-duddies, and am now a god-fearing, soon-to-be-skirt-wearing, employee of the Bangkok Christian College. Yes, it's the new me. Nobody need know that I'm actually an atheist lesbian with a fried egg tattooed on my leg. That can be our little secret. On Wednesday I go in to the new school to observe the classes I'll be taking over, and then I start work officially next Tuesday. Since the only real way to find a place to live in this country is to go door-to-door, I spent Saturday wandering around Sathorn, walking into any... (more) http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/comments?id=65 http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/archive/64.html Fri, 04 Aug 2006 04:48:23 GMT I've just been offered, and accepted, a job at the Bangkok Christian College. Good. But: It starts in two weeks! Aaargh! To do list: find new place to live... http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/comments?id=64 http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/archive/63.html Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:33:53 GMT It's Friday afternoon and I've just been thrown a surprise goodbye party by my grade ones, and I'm all fed up on junk food and have a basket full of apples, at least, the ones that didn't get splattered during an apple-throwing competition with my grade 5s immediately afterward. How heartless of me! - but, those little children will never know. But I'm not leaving yet. I still have 3 days to teach next week, after which... I have made it through to stage 2 of the recruitment process with the Bangkok Christian College, maybe helped by the fact that the Melbourne gay guy... (more) http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/comments?id=63 http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/archive/62.html Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:29:07 GMT Now that there's only 10 days til my contract finishes, I guess it's probably time to find a job (aaaaargh!). So I have been stepping up my search, which has so far resulted in three interviews. The first was yesterday, at a rather prestigious and beautiful international school in the north-eastern 'burbs of BKK. Yes, even more over-the-top than my school, which is fairly far gone. The interview went well, with the two overweight middle aged directors sounding positive, yet still bringing up my under-qualified status. What? No PGCE? Surely, if that really bothered... (more) http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/comments?id=62 http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/archive/61.html Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:52:21 GMT I am 30 I am big and old and smelly I still love your mum I still live a bit stupidly and I am still alive There must be a god. http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/comments?id=61 http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/archive/60.html Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:54:47 GMT When I first shuffled painfully into the hospital, I was directed toward the emergency room. The woman at the reception asked for my medical card and, upon typing in my details, asked, 'How are you today?' I could tell by her expression that she wasn't loking for a 'Fine thanks, and you?' kind of answer, so I told her where it hurt. I was asked to wait, and then my name was called and I was led into the emergency unit. As I walked in I glanced at the booth where Charlotte breathed her last. Please God, I thought, don't let me be examined in there. Thankfully, asking me some questions... (more) http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/comments?id=60 http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/archive/59.html Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:41:58 GMT 'An old lady collapsed, people screamed and officials argued amid the pandemonium as patriots scrambled for yellow t-shirts going for195 baht each yesterday.' No, Thailand hasn't suddenly developed a world class football team, bribed the judges and catapaulted itself into the World Cup. We here are in the grip of a different kind of fever. For this weekend, His Majesty King Bhumbibol Adulyadej celebrates 60 years on the throne, making him the longest reigning monarch anywhere, EVER. 'On the last day of official t-shirt sales, at Government House by 9am a thousand bargain... (more) http://dorsinthailand.blogdrive.com/comments?id=59