Thailand-Japan slideshow (9 mins.)

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365 days

Wow---It's amazing how quickly time passes us by, or actually, how we don't notice ourselves passing time by. Anyway- it has almost been a year since I took this photo. It is the first sunrise of 2006, over the Gulf of Thailand. The following pictures are from my trip there last X-mas/New Years. Click on them and check it out....a picture is worth a thousand words, which is good 'cause I'm a slow typer....

Thailand!

America-REPRESENT

I am grateful to have a very cool opportunity to be envolved with such a nice group of people. I go to Japanese lessons twice a week at a "community center" where lessons are taught for free to anyone who would like to LEARN. Most of the students are housewives from other parts of Asia (China, S. Korea, India) and the occasional English teacher from America, Canada or Australia......The lessons are taught by volunteer teachers, some of whom are amazing and inspiring people. Last week we had an international tea party, and a speech recitation ceremony. I, along with people from Poland, China, and Croatia, gave speeches in Japanese about the New Year's Holiday in our respective countries. After the speeches we had tea, and as you can see in the pictures (in no particular order...) I was allowed a chance to try to make tea myself (traditional Japanese style....cool).... It was a really fun event, leaving me with a "this is why I can to Japan/I am one with the world" warm fuzzy feeling inside.

International Ambassadors

Deiva-san to Clarku

Captivated by my flowing words of wisdom (actually concentrating, trying to understand my horrid pronunciation!)

MMMMM...Japanese tea

And the winner is....(ALL OF US!)