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God Dammit people! Get off your ass and do something about it. If there's something wrong, and you know it DO SOMETHING. I'm so s...

Assumption makes an ass out of u and me. I’ve heard that lame joke so many times. It rings truer today. I on the other side of the teachi...

I’m still thinking about complaining, more specifically what is everyone complaining about. A big one is not having enough time. For once,...

I don't understand why so many people spend all their time (or what seems like) complaining. Even if there's nothing current to com...

Jamaat- the simple translation would be community. Chicago is my home, and I like to think I’ll always be a part of the Chicago jamaat. ...

When I started writing this, it was for myself. Though over three months, a few people, to my surprise, have told me they read my blog. R...

We were out last night and found there to be a huge flood about 1 kilometer from were we live. This was interesting because it hadn’t raine...

Here's something that i dug up from a paper i had written after coming back from egypt. One of the first few weekends I was there a n...

Sounds of Sam Rhong actually, a suburbish place just outside Bangkok. We live on the sixth floor and have three balconies through which the...

I have a class of fifth grade boys, they practically ruin my afternoon when I step in that classroom, a group of about 30 mostly unmotivated...

That’s the name of this river that runs through Bangkok, south and on to the gulf of Thailand. Also, we’re fortunate enough to live near th...

3$, that’s what I spent on a compass. I think it may be the best 3 bucks I’ve spent in a long time. I’ve been to three different countries...

36 years. 36 years have seen a war in vietnam, korea, two in iraq and so much more. 36 years have seen 4 passport renewals, 36 tax retu...

Every Friday morning, the students at this school as a group perform these ridiculous exercises as a group. While wearing their uniforms, i...

My first real saturday here. We set out, camera in hand determined to go somewhere, directionless...but certian of one thing, it would be n...

Our sleeping habits have been off a little bit since we’ve been here, and fortunately for us they haven’t resumed normally with sleeping lat...

Actually it’s spelled durian, It’s a tropical fruit, like no other I’ve ever seen. And I had the misfortune of mistaking durian flavored ic...

it'd be a shame if i didn't use this title as a post title...and as i thought of this song while i was here the last few days, i rea...

In 36 hours i'll be on a plane, heading towards bangkok. I'll get to see what i'm made of, if i have what it takes to be a teac...

I've been doing some reading lately, and after a long time i've been thinking about what i learned in history class, one of my least...