Merry Christmas everyone! It is Christmas day here is Surat Thani, Thailand. In the morning you will wake to presents, cookie crumbs, the smell of pine needles, the sounds of ripping paper and those familiar songs you dust off once a year. I woke to drink a cup of coffee, clean the house, run errands, workout and write a blog. Such is life on the other side of the world. Christmas is known here but in the way Hanukah is known back home. People know it but they don’t understand it or have any real emotional connection to it. I take that back the kids get it. Presents, no class, sweet stuff, these are things deep-seeded into the language of the little ones. There were no classes yesterday at Joy Bilingual School, just celebrations and gift
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