Respectful Ignorance and the purpose of this Blog?

This blog might seem like a hodge podge of different postings. I have three audiences for this blog, people in Thailand who want to know what on earth I do in Alaska, people in Alaska who want to know what in earth I am doing in Thailand, and myself! I looked through a notebook I kept when I went to Thailand in 2002. As I read the postings my memories came back, it brought the experience back to life. I want to do the same thing with this blog. I intend to post pictures as well as observations and experiences. I also want to track and document the purpose of my Sabbatical. When I find places that I want to visit, or information that would be useful I will post it to this blog. I intend to use this blog to document my Sabbatical and to submit the blog, or an edited copy of it, for my Sabbatical report. I also intend for this blog to be subjective and personal, I will describe what I experience not what is true. I am both ignorant and innocent about Thailand and many of my posts will reflect that ignorance. When I lived in a village in Alaska, in 1967, and worked for Indian Education in Anchorage, the one thing that I learned was to not jump to conclusions about culture. Any culture is much deeper then I can comprehend without living in the culture for a long time. Ignorance is not a bad thing, it just means that I do not know. What is bad is not knowing or respecting my own ignorance and to think I know things that I do not. So I hope to approach my experiences with respectful ignorance.