Since my time in Udon Thani slowly comes to an end it is time for a final recap. I already told you more than once that I love teaching and most of my students and I probably will say it again in a final post, however this post is about my college and the education commission which supervises all colleges. I figured that, if I give these complaints in a [ Read More ]
The time mentioned in the title is the time it took until I couldn’t take it anymore. Usually I always play nice and smile and try to not be offended by the way local sales people / tuk tuk driver and similar scam treat me (like foreigners are stupid, money making, waiting to be milked, machines). I always reply with a friendly ‘mai ao khrap’ (I don’t need, thank you). [ Read More ]
Once more time for fireworks and party – like always when there is any kind of partyable event coming up. Today however was a real reasonable party day – Udon Thani’s anniversary. Like last year, this year would be celebrated with a firework contest and Thai cultural shows over the next two days. The kick off, my highlight, was the firework contest though. This year wasn’t that big compared to [ Read More ]
Just another quick updated for friends and family who keep asking about the flood situation right now. If you want to get up to the minute information about the flood I suggest you follow the sources I mentioned in my last post about the flood. Here is just a quick overview. Central Thailand still suffers from the flood and nobody really knows how long this shit might go on. While [ Read More ]
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 watch them perform I tried my best to figure out how to go there (wasn’t [ Read More ]
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 inline skates again and am now starting to skate Thailand with Udon Thani in the [ Read More ]
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 by the earthquake. In Chiang Rai one women died and several buildings were damaged. Besides [ Read More ]
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 Street” to Udon Thani. It is far away from being Chiang Mai style, but nevertheless [ Read More ]
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 place for all different kinds of products from all over Thailand. While this makes perfectly [ Read More ]
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 (with no direct busses going to Phu Foi Lom) I was quite happy about that [ Read More ]
