In the Bangkok Post today there was a picture of my home town Fairbanks Alaska. The picture showed immaculate Conception Church and the temperature sign on Denali State Bank. The temperature was reading -52. It is a strange experience to see a picture of your home town in Bangkok! I had to double take to recognize it. My first impression was just "Oh Fairbanks Winter!".
Next to the story on Alaska cold was a story of the eruption on Mt. Augustine near Homer. I guess even in Thailand Alaska has some news worth publishing. I took the story and picture around to show people in the community.
When we visited Jit's Uncle her cousin was redecorating a room, the walls were covered with pictures of Rama V. In Jit's uncle's house there was a picture wall also, it had many pictures of the King and two pictures of his kids graduating from college. It amazes me the number of pictures of Rama V that I see in Thailand.
This morning we went to the Banglapheu (?) floating market, it is near our house and we took a motor bike. We got there about 9:30 and it was very busy. There were no tourists. I can recommend going to the market on Saturday and Sunday morning, there is an amazing selection of food to eat, there are some arts and crafts to purchase, and it is a relaxed place to enjoy Thailand. Jit purchased some plants for our fish pots in front of the house.
A Monitor Lizard was near our house today, probably scared away from the park by the crowd. Jit's dad got out his sling shot and scared it away.
We had a picnic in the park in the afternoon. Juke's family and Jit's family went. It was fun and relaxing. I am still fighting a fever but I had fun anyway.
Tomorrow we go to STOU for the last time, I will teach Word in the morning and have a goodbye lunch in the afternoon. We have three more weeks before we leave. It is hard to imagine.
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