Hope this photo doesn't incriminate anyone too much. The lady on my left is one of my favorite people here -- she's 74 and amazing! we really love the nights we stay at hub...

Fat baby.

I just found out I'm going to Sukhothai. That guy's name is Arnold and he's my closest PC neighbor -- about 30 km's away. Which is far by rural standards here, especially when you have to bike through rice paddies to get to him!

PC girls being goofy. The heart thing was left over from a wedding. Thai people love gaudy hearts.

Here's me in my first meal in Si Satchanalai with, from left to right: the wife of the village chief, me, the village chief, the mayor of the village, one of the gov't workers and the city manager. These are the big-wigs of the village who I will be working with the most. Technically, my counterpart is the city-manager, but in actuality I will have many counterparts in my job.

This is a hand-woven skirt made in my future village. This type of skirt takes about a month to make an costs 2,000 baht ~ $50. So beautiful!

This is the Sakekrang River that runs through Uthai Thani. there's lots of fish farming and seaweed farming.

A monk in a bus station. Monks are everywhere! In fact, most Thai men become monks for some period of time, ranging from a few weeks to a few months. These monks only take 8 vows, while life-long monks take something like 246 vows.

Bananas and a "som-oh." I don't know what that fruit is in English. But I eat a lot of it. :)

First week of training. This is one of our teachers ('ajan" in thai) teaching us how to use the squat toilets. They are tricky little monsters, those toilets. See, they're elevated about 6 inches off the ground. Don't ask me why. It's always fun.

Where's Maeve? Here I am during my site visit (to Si Satchanalai). My community took me to visit EVERY village in two days -- that's 12 villages worth of eating, meeting and talking. This was one house we ate at. I think it was my fourth meal of the day... by two o'clock in the afternoon.