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Asia 2006 Politics Thailand

A crisis averted…but for the better?

Okay, so on Tuesday the school hosted this forum on the coup which I attended and was quite interesting and informative. Part of it involved tracing the events leading up to the coup. One in particular that seems to contribute to why the military acted when they did, is that on September 20, the day […]

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Asia 2006 Thailand

4 Hours in Bangkok

So today I went to Bangkok to pick up my passport from the Vietnamese Embassy, where it has been for the past week while getting a visa for Vietnam put in. I can’t say that I really knew what to expect given the fact that it’s only the 3rd full day since the military coup […]

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Asia 2006 Politics Thailand

Political Turmoil??

Well, I must say, 36 hours after the coup that made world news, things in Thailand (well at least in Hua Hin) are very calm. I went into town last night, and if you hadn’t heard about what was going on in Bangkok, you wouldn’t have known it by the state of things in Hua […]

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Asia 2006 Politics Thailand

COUP D’ETAT

Wow! Who knew being abroad could be so exciting! So if you hadn’t heard by now, there was a coup d’etat in Thailand last night! Anyone on the other side of the world heard about this way before I did, as it happened in the middle of the night here. I found out this morning […]

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Asia 2006 Thailand

Another Bangkok Quest

So I know I haven’t written much lately but nothing too exciting has been going on. Officially midterms were this week, though I have yet to have one…I’ve got a take home one this weekend for Buddhism class and then a written midterm for Thai on Tuesday evening that I’m a bit nervous about. On […]

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A Day of Royalty–Bangkok Day 3

Okay so here’s a re-cap of Friday evening and Saturday, my last day in Bangkok. After my last message on Friday night I went back to eat and explore the circus that is Thanon Khao San (Thanon is the Thai word for road, avenue, boulevard, etc). As much as I somewhat disliked Khao San Rd […]

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Asia 2006 Thailand

More from Bangkok

Greetings once again from Bangkok, though I’m not in Patpong this time, but instead in Banglamphu a street down from Khao San Rd (THE tourist stretch). My plans did change again and I decided to stay in Bangkok tonight. I don’t think I’ll do the floating market this time around, as it’s a 2 hr […]

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Back in Bangkok

It’s my second time writing in the same day! I’m now in Bangkok, in case you didn’t gather that from the subject line. However, I did not make it to the Vietnamese Embassy today, because, as we were warned in orientation, nothing in Thailand ever goes as planned! It took me longer than I expected […]