Wednesday and a much needed beer stop from working life.
It's quite tough at school. Not really, but for teaching it is. There's quite an art to getting in the frame of mind where nothing fazes you. Most students are very pleasant, but the wild bands of boys who roam free, due to non confrontational Thai culture, allow them to reach havoc wherever they choice.
Thailand seems to be really in the thick of it right now. The ruling classes lock themselves away in mind blowing palaces with infinite riches while the rest them fight over bananas etc. Every week buses packed full of peasants die dreadfully in bus crashes. There is never any suggestion of improvement. They just allow the poor to wipe themselves out, as there are plenty more where they came from.
This dreadful need to assert power over lesser beings trickles down the pecking order, where headmasters attempt to prevent foreign teachers from leaving the school during hours. Sometimes I really feel like I am in a BBC sit com, this crazy bunch of whiteys I share a room with as we discuss escape plans and how to deal with living in a country full of primal beings who react like primal beings to any action.
I read on Thai Visa forum today, how a Thai guy that used to sit in an outside bar every day, hence the farang knew and saw him every day, gets visited by some unknown heavies who empty 10-30 rounds into the guys head before leaving.
Horrendous crimes here every day.
One has to close ones mind to it, yet I fear its happening all over the world. The hatred is fuelled by money and the way we live.
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