Welcome to "Sunday Summary" in which I try to summarize the week that came before. This is the 98th installment, covering the week ending today, the 7th of July 2024.
Each week, we link up with The Sunday Salon, hosted at ReaderBuzz, and Sunday Post at Caffeinated Reviewer. Check out their posts and the links to see what other book bloggers have been up to in the last week.
School and home blurred into a rainy routine this week and seemed to pass by in an instant. The most stressful parts of each day was the commute into work as the traffic seems to get worse rather than better. Amazingly enough, I was only late once all week and that was Friday when I arrived a full thirty minutes past the time I was due. I had kept in touch with Kru May and my agency rep with update on my ETA and the only one who seemed overly concerned was myself. Everyone knew I would get there when I could and I would burst into action as soon as I entered the classroom. Which I did.
Other than weather-related class cancellations, the only real variant to my lessons (the topic was "Safety First!") was when I took a few minutes on Thursday to give the children a brief look at the Independence Day celebrations that I miss. I played a video showing a bit of last year's fireworks over New York's harbor and a version of the Star Spangled Banner performed at Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium complete with 80,000 Chiefs fans singing along ("Land of the free, Home of the Chiefs!") with B2 bomber flyover and lots of fireworks on the "bombs bursting in the air" lines. Our assistant asked the kids to stand up when I played the anthem which I thought was pretty amazing as some don't even stand when the Thai National Anthem is played each morning.
Most evenings, between bouts of reading, I searched online apartment listings. A full house just seems too expensive for my teacher's budget although I may still get lucky once I start looking in the neighborhoods surrounding the school. I found a few apartments that look promising, although none were really that close to the area in which I want to move. I started taking stamp albums off my shelves this morning, distributing those between two 100 liter plastic containers, making sure they aren't too heavy for me to carry down the stairs and a long pathway to the street. I may need to find a wheeled dolly to assist in moving some of this stuff.
At this point, it looks as if I will be able to move next week if I can settle on a place and pay the required move-in costs. I hope I can talk a friend with a truck to help us otherwise I will have to hire a local mover. I doubt I can take the big things using the Bolt Taxi service. The last time that I moved, the bulk of it was done on the local buses but those are always overcrowded now.
I finished only one book this week but am closing in on the final chapters of Stuart Turton's novel and making good progress on Printer's Error by the Romneys. I will probably start another fiction work in the next day or so.
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A light blogging week on my main site and three articles on Philatelic Pursuits. In writing the "Sunday Summary" this week, I noticed a new option for sourcing photos. In addition to the Upload, Select Image and Insert from URL choices, there is now one to Generate with AI. I have many reasons for disliking AI -- which seems to be taking over almost everything I do electronically -- chief amongst which is that I think it makes people extremely lazy. At least it cannot take over my Bullet Journal, Stamp Collection and Teaching (I hope!).
Nothing much to report here. I did a few doodles for Independence Day and finally created this month's To Kill A Mockingbird quote page. I am thinking about creating a small tribute to France's National Celebration (Bastille Day) as well as the Paris Olympics when those events come up.
The only video I shot all week were two brief clips on Friday during a game to teach Road Safety. Unfortunately, the children were a little too exuberant and they all ran quickly no matter if the traffic lights were red, yellow, or green. In fact, they looked exactly like a normal Thai road at any given time as nobody obeys signals or signs here.
My photos were pretty sparse as well, consisting almost entirely of images taken during lunch or dinner. I didn't manage a single Greeting photo (too rainy) nor even a selfie! I walked over to the beach yesterday for the first time since the 21st of May (!) and shot just a couple of photos.
Food find of the week was the discovery that 7-Eleven is now carrying a microwave version of Khao Soi with Chicken. This is my second favorite Thai dish (right after Masaman Curry) and the convenience store version is pretty darn good.
I love the round egg tarts from KFC. 7-Eleven now has a egg tart toastie which is a mighty fine find.
One of the parents gave K. May a bag of fish balls so we regifted those to our students Wednesday morning. Cooking may have improved the flavor but I am not a big fan as they remind me of school bologna from my youth but with fishy flavor.
The noodles on Wednesday were spicy and delicious but Thursday's lunch tasted weird. At least the watermelon was okay.
Dark clouds as I prepare to leave school Friday afternoon. It did not start to rain until I arrived in Kata two hours later.
Tuk tuks at Kata Beach
The Isle of Poo -- in Thai, poo (ปู) is "crab"
See you next week. . . .
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