Greetings, readers! I'm (almost) back to "regular" blogging. No, I didn't fall off the edge of the Earth. I am just trying to recover from what was simple exhaustion. My 53-year-old body essentially rebelled against my unrelenting schedule. For weeks, I had been looking forward to taking a bit of a vacation/holiday break at the … Continue reading Update #2019-10
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Monthly Meanderings: August 2015
August saw my return to high school and I’m still trying to adjust. My leisure time went from “perfect” to “will I ever have free-time again”? September will be even busier but I should be able to take a lengthy holiday starting the second week of October. At least the weather has largely cooperated; the … Continue reading Monthly Meanderings: August 2015
Friday Photos #3: English Camp on Cape Panwa
It’s been a tiring week as I’ve spent Monday through Thursday working at an English camp on Phuket’s rural Cape Panwa. Thus, the theme for this installment of Friday Photos. Conducting these camps is strenuous by itself but I’ve also been teaching my regular evening lessons all week as well. What is an English camp? … Continue reading Friday Photos #3: English Camp on Cape Panwa
A Year In The Life: 2014
The beginning of a New Year brings the traditional “year in review” post on blogs all over the world. Thus far, I’ve managed to avoid such an annual wrap-up as I’m not certain it serves much of a purpose. Now that I’m blogging much more, and am on the verge of several major changes in … Continue reading A Year In The Life: 2014
English Camp – December 2014
Earlier this month, the teaching agency I work for sponsored a two-day English Camp at Wat Sri Sunthorn School in the Thalang Sub-District of Phuket. As are most camps of this type these days, this one revolved around the 2015 initiation of the Asian Economic Community (AEC) and so included plenty of quiz games in … Continue reading English Camp – December 2014
Six Months
Six months. It’s been six months since I’ve written anything for this blog. What happened? I don’t really know. I’ve alternated between periods of extreme busyness and extreme laziness. Nothing new there. But for some reason I haven’t felt compelled to write in quite some time. And that time really got away from me. Six … Continue reading Six Months
End Of Silence?
This has been one of my longest blog-silences for quite some time. I hope to put an end to that in the near future. I had been quite busy with work throughout February and the summer slow-down has officially begun with the conclusion of a four-day English Camp on Sirae Island last week. I finished … Continue reading End Of Silence?
English Camp!!
I am a person of many interests and I belueve that my writings on Asian Meanderings, and elsewhere, reflects that. Lately, the focus on this blog has been on stamps and postcards with a few of our local Phuket festivals and activities sprinkled in. But I am also a teacher of English as a Foreign … Continue reading English Camp!!
Postcrossing: Received Card #14
I haven't been spending much time on my stamps or postcards recently. With the end of the long rainy season, November has been a real scorcher; hot and humid is not good philatelic weather! I have also been very busy teaching -- I now have at least one two-hour lesson each and every day of … Continue reading Postcrossing: Received Card #14
Mark Joseph Jochim 