När jag har något att säga säjer jag det här, om jag inte säger det någon annanstans. Politik, mera om Asien än om Västvärlden eftersom jag ofta känner mej mindre främmande där. Sometimes English, sometimes Swedish depending on what kind of keyboard and my state of mind.

2011-06-14

Ban Mo, Saraburi Province

Jungle Monday, 11:50


Apparently I got all the medicines along, have just filled the medicin box for the week from the cartons in the plastic bag. First I thought I had forgotten one but then found that box down in the corner.

Just now 28°/32° - light air conditioning, I usually put it at 29°. Yesterday evening the brother of Yui drove us slowly around the village - I saw the school of Yui and a playground. And then we bought ice cream.



Playground, and in through the elegant portal is a temple and Yui's school - they are often together. Nobody screams, as in Sweden, that religion and school is associated with each other, and not a muslim or mosque in the vicinity. After all it is not Eskilstuna....   The future here is safer than in Eskilstuna, this very average town of Sweden, Eskilstuna. Here they just continue to live like they have done the last 1000 years.

Just before we bought ice cream, where they also fix motor bikes.

Then we took the road back to the houses:



Passing the house where the brother and we live:






to where the parents live, where Yui grew up:


There is lots of fresh air where people usually spend their time, in between the legs. Some of the floor cement, some earth, some old sacks. Practical - these houses are situated a bit higher than where they cultivate rice, so they avoid the yearly flooding.


Sweden and its local problems definitely feel far away!


Now fried fish and bamboo shoots for breakfast. Yui is sour, her mother does everything for me, she has to do everything herself......


We are nice and pay most of the stuff we use, after all we got more money above absolute necessities, thou they are far from poor and own lots of land where they pick much of what they eat. We gave her ma 15000B for the aircon she bought, and I think Yui will give her bro 5000B for all extras. After all they built this little room to be ready for us. But then we have to save.


Have finished the coffee with a cap of the rhum I bought in Copenhagen for 98DKR for a liter.Good to have some in the coffee. Also got a big mug of homemade soy milk.


The nearest town is Saraburi, many of the kids here have barely seen the sea, maybe 150 kms away.



1 kommentar:

Dag Selander sa...

Tisdag 14 juni 2011 och ingenting nytt från Eskilstuna. Däremot vet TT att berätta om hedersmordet förra året när sonen tog på sig mordet, men när han ska utvisas till MidEast så berättar han sanningen om hur bl.a. mamman hällt kokande olja över mannen som tagit deras dotter och hur fadern använt kniven. Andra TT-nyheter är att Södertälje har fullt upp med kriminella gäng som beskjuter varann och använder bepansrade Mercedes Benz för att undgå bombattacker.

I förrgår skötte sig israelvännerna i Karlskorna förträffligt, vilket Per Gahrton inte gjorde. Ilya har en mycket bra bloggpost om Israel i Sverige: http://ilyameyer.com/svenska/2011/06/13/sverige-vann-handbollsmatchen-mot-israel%E2%80%A6/

Vi hörs!
//Dag