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North-Eastern Thailand Vocational College English Speech Competition – as Judge
During this years North-Eastern Thailand Vocational College Championships I was selected to be one of three judges sitting in the committee of the English speech competition. Besides being the by far youngest judge, I also was the only non-native speaker there. Turned out that the two old English guys and I did have total different [...]
North-Eastern Thailand Vocational College Championships
Day number 4 of the North-Eastern Vocational College Exhibition hosted by our college. While the upcoming two days are more an exhibition style, the past three days have been all about competition. The North-Eastern Thailand Vocational College Championships 2011 took place and showed some great and impressive skillsets as well as some funny failures and [...]
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Here comes the rain again – Rainy Season in North Eastern Thailand
Rainy season is coming closer and closer and so is the rain itself. Right now there are heavy rainfalls on an almost daily basis. Nevertheless there are days where the sun still shines all the time and makes it almost impossible to stay outside without burning instantly. On the other hand there are days where you [...]
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Best High Tech Dance Contest 2011 – UVC…the best!
Today I happened to see the “Best High Tech Dance Contest 2011″. Best High Tech is an electronic store here in Thailand and hosted today its first local dance contest. This won’t be exactly the type of event I’d plan to visit but since some of my students asked me if I could come and [...]
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Skating Thailand: The Udon Thani Vocational College
Got those 8 wheels under my feet I can fly so high I can fall so deep But who do I see coming up the track? A little green man with inline skates on his back. (sorry for the bad cover version. See the original song here) To make it short: I finally have some [...]
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Earthquake March 24, 2011
Hey everybody. This is just a short update since I received again a lot of questions regarding this topic. Yesterday evening an 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit parts of Thailand. The earthquake actually took place in Myanmar but effected parts of Thailand as well. Especially the north-western part (Chiang Rai / Chiang Mai area) was hit [...]
Festival \ isan \ udon thani
Udon City Walking Street & Udon Love Music
It’s party time again in Udon Thani! This time (March 18th – March 20th) there are two events at the same time and the same place. Yeah! Udon City Walking Street First there is the Udon City Walking Street happening right now They try to bring a little bit of the famous “Chiang Mai Walking [...]
Festival \ isan \ otop \ udon thani
OTOP – One tambon, one product
I still don’t know why they call it “tambon”. Maybe because they couldn’t find that word in a dictionary and so they thought “hey, let’s create a new word…”. Still think it sounds quite shitty, but whatever. Right now is OTOP time. The OTOP fair takes place from March 3 – March 9 and is [...]
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Phu Foi Lom – Part I
After having visitied Wat Pa Ban Tat in order to pay tribute to Luang Ta Maha Bua my students suggested to go even a little further and also visit famous Phu Foi Lom – the green lung of Udon Thani. Since it is quite far away from Udon City and I am still without Motorcycle [...]
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Wat Pa Ban Tat – tribute to Luang Ta Maha Bua
Last week some of my tourism students asked me if I would like to join them for a trip to Wat Pa Ban Tat – a quite famous temple here in the Udon Thani region. Right now it is even more famous since one of the most popular monks in younger history passed away not [...]
