"All will be revealed."

    Traveling SE Asia as I have I've learned to be flexible. Language is often the issue where plans cannot be either fully explained nor understood. Another issue is the Asian tendency to live in the moment without an over-riding concern about what happens next. To live in this state of uncertainty I've adopted a mantra that is helpful, "All will be revealed." If I trust the people just relax and let it flow.
    This mantra became very helpful today. Met, Nice' grandma, picked him up from school and came home with a message from the school for me, "The students will be testing this week so come on Monday." Yes, "All will be revealed."  In all the communications with school about when I'd begin, even before I bought my airline tickets, nothing was said about testing days.
     The situation in Ayutthaya is not conducive for me when I'm not teaching. All the adults in the house work long days. The house is in a rather remote residential area at the end of a long dead end street. It's very difficult to leave the house except by motorcycle or car. Walking is not practical with dogs, cattle pigs, motor vehicles and no sidewalks. There is no comfortable furniture, one straight chair, so spending hours here is not easy. So, we hatched a plan.
      I'll go to BKK tomorrow and return Saturday. Tong and Poe don't work Sunday and Met will close her coffee shop and we will have an outing for which "All will be revealed." 😀 Language does make a difference. Countless times I've been told "Up to you" with no hint of the right answer. Since I've learned to say 'up to you' in Thai, when I say it, someone else will actually venture an opinion or make a decision. So, I'll be back for an unspecified  adventure on Sunday.
     Disappointed, yes, but there's no snow, I'm 95% recovered, I'm in Thailand, so, me worry?

Takk for alt,

Al

The main room of my house.