Sawadii-ka from Thailand! Hope you are doing well! Life, Teaching, Bangkok, is going well. Things have started to feel like there is day-to-day routine, except for the occasional twists that get thrown in, like what happened this past past week, (so I decided to write a group email). I JUST GOT BACK FROM 4 DAYS IN THE TROPICAL RAINFOREST! Here’s how it happened and how it went… On Monday I went to work as normal, and one of my students was away because of "canker sores". It turns out, unsurprisingly, that he had Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease. Since Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease is quite contagious (esp. in kids under age of 6), The American School of Bangkok was closed for the rest of week!! You can imagine everyone's reaction when they found out they
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