Lessons from Baan Sam Kha

Sabbatical Visit List Stephen Cysewski
I have added a link to the original information about the Wi Max community near Lampang.

A lazy Sunday, Roti's and Garden Pots

Today, Sunday, a traveling Roti vendor was wheeling a cart through the community, tooting his bike horn. We bought some without eggs. They were excellent. In the morning, after writing my blog entry I read the newspaper and watched the Seattle Seahawks win their playoff game. I was raised in the Seattle area and have been following the Seahawks for years. I only watched the fourth quarter.

Jit's dad heard a plant container salesmen from the road, they went and looked at the pots, we bought four large ones. The vendors wheeled the pots and potting soil to the house. There is a whole economic culture of trucks with loud speakers. I saw one truck, on the Bangkok side, advertising awnings for street vendors or shops.

Yesterday on the way back from Suphan Buri I saw a neglected concrete dinosaur. Next to the dinosaur were three used cars in a tent covering, one of the cars was a classic, mid 70's Alfa Romeo! When I travel I am concentrated on observing, there are many fascinating puzzles.

Jit bought the Monk who comes for morning offerings an eGo card for Internet access. Monday she will give it to him.

Next week will be busy, Monday and Tuesday we go to STOU. Tuesday night we leave for Lampang on the train. Wednesday we will tour Lampang. Thursday we will go to the Wi-Max community and stay overnight. Friday we will return to Bangkok by plane.

Jit's dad has anchored a rubber pipe like a shower hose, that he has made into a circle, in the canal. There is a stick in the mud that holds the circle in place. He feeds the fish by throwing the food in the circle. I asked why, the answer is that the canals have a current, by throwing the food into the circle the food does not move down the canal and the fish stay in one place. A really neat idea!

Today is Teacher's day, but for University faculty it is still a day of work. We took the Taxi in this morning. There was a bobble head sheep toy on the taxi dashboard. The taxi smelled a little of alcohol and the driver was not smooth. We got there OK, but I do get anxious about some of our taxi rides.

I taught Charting and Graphing today, tomorrow I was going to teach about Excel's List tools but one of the students will not be able to attend so I will teach the lesson next week. Instead I will do an introduction to Access, the essential concepts to understand and use Access. We switched next week so that I will teach from Wednesday to Friday.

Tomorrow we leave for Lampang, it will be an interesting trip.