It has been a while since the last post, but I will do my best to highlight the most memorable items.
For the month of April, we did a lot of job hunting and trying to find our way around. I had an interview in April, right before Songkran...
Now....if you have never been to Thailand for Songkran, you surely are missing out. This is the festival for all ages (I think some of my best memories involve the elders showing the young ones how to be sneaky and attack...often from second story buildings) and it involves water. There are very few places that I could envision a city closing down major streets and intersections for the purpose of blaring music and allowing people to shoot water guns and throw buckets of water at people while simultaneously smearing powder all over them. Normally April is the warmest month of the year, but I found it a bit chilly...but really...this is an amazing festival that is like none other that I have participated in. It really is a time of laughter, smiles...and we don't have any pictures to show you what a good time we had because we weren't willing to risk the camera...next time...next time...
But, I am sure there are plenty of great youtube videos that highlight some of the best moments...or you can just visit us next year and that would be fine too!
Right after Songkran I had my second interview which led to my employment at Webster University Thailand Campus, Bangkok office. I started on the first of May and it has been beautiful. Who knew that one could miss a university campus so much?
Scott is employed at a language institute working with a bunch of pretty great people...I feel that he will soon return with "proper British" infused American English...being as a great majority of the native speakers are Brits...I'm waiting for the "blimey" and "bloody hell" and (yes Megs and Isaac) the "bollocks" to come out...
I had to do a visa run to Laos at the end of April...and I had some great people that I went with. It was a great time, one of the better visa runs that I have done through a company at any rate. Of course the best is being able to make a visa run into a nice, relaxing vacation (of course with immigration thrown smack dab in the middle of it) but...when time and funds are limited...you take the easy route.
I have discovered the trivia options around the area...and although it is nothing like KVSC trivia...I don't think I have ever heard of another 50 hour trivia...so I settle for a few hours a week with a group of amazing people. They are the kind of group that makes me go "ah, I knew there were 'normal' expats here...." and that I would want to hang out with them instead of turn my head and pretend not to understand English...
Scott has been involved in a couple movie projects since we have been to Thailand, both which have been shortlisted and we hope to hear details about that soon. For now, tonight he is doing his second visa run this month to Laos...due to "miscommunication and special circumstances"....but those are some of the big highlights since I last wrote. I thought that Scott would write more, but since not, I decided to keep plugging away at this and posting his pictures/videos as well...(I was waiting so he could post them and talk about them...but then, they may not ever get on the blog).
We enjoyed a day of finding water monitors at Lumpini park which was great...
And yes, Pep and I finally met up again...I see the Bangkok airport being a great reunion site in the next few years...
Up next...the Kosloski trip to Thailand....
