Category: Living in Thailand
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Goodbye Mathias
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Yesterday evening I drove Mathias to the Chiang Mai Airport. He was here for three month helping us with the work and take time off from his demanding work. “Mathias I hope you had a good flight. Thanks again for everything. Have a good start on Monday… (oh boy I…
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Tausend Dinge
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Es gäbe tausend Dinge zu schreiben. Nicht das ich ein paar Minuten Zeit hätte zu schreiben. Es ist manchmal einfach schwierig mich hinzusetzen und das viele das hier abgeht abzutippen. So hatte ich gerade mal eine Blogpause. Ich bin schon lange mit dem Team zurück, war schon wieder sonst in…
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Erdbeben in Chiang Mai
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Gestern am Mittag sass ich im Büro, als sich der Boden plötzlich für ein paar Sekunden erschütterte. "Das war jetzt komisch?" dachte ich. Ich ging vor die Türe und wunderte mich ob es ein schwerrer Lastwagen wäre. Beim Hinausgehen kam mir der Gedanke. Es war ein Erdbeben. Ein leichtes, aber…
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Hochzeitstag
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Heute sind es 15 Jahre seit wir damals in der reformierten Kirche Bümpliz Ja zueinander gesagt haben. 15 Jahre verheiratet. Wer hätte das gedacht. "Thanks Lillian for sticking with me". Ich weiss das ist nicht viel für manche Leute. Ich konnte mir dies aber nie so vorstellen und hatte damals…
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German Worship
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This morning I led worship in the German Community we have every two weeks. This is my latest worship "project". (I wrote about this last year) . Even though I speak German more or less fluent it doesn’t come to me as natural as English. What I mean it is…
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Happy Birthday to Me!
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I made it…. another year has passed and today I turned 39. Who would have thought I could make it that far. I’m one of the lucky ones. Thank you God for all those years. May they honor You and may I be pleasing to Your heart. Thank you for…
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Dream job
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I took this photo in Bangkok. This used to be one of my dream jobs. Cleaning windows at sky scrappers. I must have been crazy to even consider something like this. It’s fear factor 🙂 I remember in Switzerland climbing tall trees with a chain saw in winter without security…
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Travelling by train in Thailand
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In April we had a holiday and decided to go down to the beach. To save money we took the night train to Bangkok. From there the third class train to Cha Am. Going by train slows the journey down a lot. Time to read, play games and just relax.…
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Buddhism and Thailands new Constitution
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Thailand is a Buddhist country and in fact kept it’s religious identity very much through decades of globalization and influences from the other countries. Other major religion like Islam and Christianity co-existed in the country. Thailand gives freedom to all religions. This might all change with the new constitution where…
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Monday Morning
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It is Monday morning and I had one of those slow starts again. I must say I worked on the computer till two in the morning. Copying photos on DVD’s and backing up our computers. Then I woke up several times during the night for no particular reason.Around eight in…