About Me.

I asked all the kids to answer some questions about themselves. Here are my answers:

1) What is your nickname? My nickname is Dtangmo.
2) What is your favorite color? My favorite color is purple.
3) What is your age? I am 43 years old.
4) What do you want to see in America? I want to see my family and also my friends in Boston.
5) What is your favorite band or who is your favorite singer? I like Grooverider, Paradox, the Violent Femmes, and New Order.
6) List five Thai snacks that you like to eat:
- Gummy Dinosaurs
- Lactasoy Chocolate milk
- Cougar milk candy
- Tommy jelly beans
- Snickers
7) What do you eat for breakfast? Chocolate soy milk and Mataba-Gai.
8) What is your hobby? I like to read books, make websites and play Magic: the Gathering.
9) Do you have any pets? I have a cat. His name is Pumpkin.
10) How many brothers and sisters do you have? What are their names and ages? I have two brothers and two sisters. They are Diane, Pat, Bob and Dan (ages withheld under threat, hahah!)
11) Are there any foods that you cannot eat? I cannot eat peas! Yuck!
12) Do you have any allergies? No. I am very healthy!
13) What is your favorite sport? I like to play tae-kaw, and I like to watch Packer football (American football).
14) What do you want to be when you grow up? I am an adult already! I am a teacher.
15) What is your favorite movie or book? I favorite movie is "The Iron Giant" and my favorite book is "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant". I also really like watching "Walking Dead" on TV.
16) Do you like computer games? What games do you like to play? Yes, I like to play computer games. I play "Sudoku" on my phone, and I play "Homeworld", "Battlefield" and "World of Warcraft" on my computer. I also like stealing Patty's phone to play "Plants vs. Zombies"!

2012 Trip Preparations

Tonight is our overnight pre-trip orientation camp. We're staying at a guest house in Kindergarten on Chok Chai 4.

The kids have just finished setting up their blogs, and now they are chatting and giggling. It's pretty late, so I should be telling them to get to sleep, but it's important for them to bond a bit before the trip, so I'll give them a bit more time before shooing them off to bed. Right now, they're playing a Thai version of "Truth or Dare" or "Spin the Pencil". It's kinda cute :-). I think this will be a good group of kids, and I suspect they will all be best friends by the end of this trip.

We leave for America in a little over a week, but there's still a lot to do! It's crunch time for trip preparations, and I've been putting in 20-hour days for the past few weeks to get everything ready. We very narrowly avoided an airline-ticketing disaster that could have torpedoed the whole trip, so I'm relieved that is finally all fixed and behind us. Some day when I've had some sleep (and perhaps some post-traumatic stress therapy) I'll blog about the whole airline-ticketing ordeal we had to go through, but right now the drama is still too fresh to relive at this moment! Ha!

Here are the blogs for everyone on this year's trip:

George: pudgimelon.blogspot.com
Patty: patnida-abadebi.blogspot.com
Jean: lookchinamerica.blogspot.com
Fern: baifernamerica.blogspot.com
Lin: linhuiamerica.blogspot.com
Jane: natchajane.blogspot.com
Erng: erngusa.blogspot.com

This is where we are staying for our overnight, pre-trip orientation camp

Setting up our blogs

Erng getting ready for Wisconsin's lovely spring weather. Is she overdoing it much? 555+