Ruamrudee International School
6 Ramkhamhaeng 184
Minburi - 10510
Bangkok, Thailand
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Home address
48/137 The Villa
Soi Ramkhamhaeng 174
Minburi Bangkok 10510
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Update
Sorry there have been so few posts! We are still waiting on internet for our house. I did find a local coffee shop that has Wifi, and surprisingly good coffee. Will have much more when I can post from home.
Update on School: Colby's classroom is coming together. She has been in meeting after meeting, and we are thanking ourselves for getting here a week earlier to set up living arrangements. The teachers who just rolled in have a lot on their hands. She is out getting her blood drawn and a physical today for health insurance, and it looks like I will be able to get out of that one...HALLELUJAH.
Update on Minburi: The neighborhood we are in, and the part of Bangkok is very Thai, and has very very few foreigners. The reason is its far from downtown, and transportation is not easy out here. Today I will be working out some of the bus system, but there is one main artery that goes out this way, and all the neighborhoods just spring off that street, but only connect to it and no others. So traffic can get awful. The good side of living by the school is we are a 7 minute bike ride. As for our immediate surroundings however, there really is not many attractions.
We do have two main market streets a short walk or bike ride away from us. I jogged down to one of these yesterday morning, and it was bustling. Trucks with fresh vegetables were selling their goods right on the side of their road, more street food vendors than you could count, and crowds of Thai's. Have not seen another foreigner while at these streets, so it is interesting getting the strange looks from the locals, mostly friendly and curious.
I'm meeting with some other non teaching spouses today to talk about other opportunities they have run into while being here, some teaching at other international schools, universities, tutors, etc. Still exploring some options.
We are planning a trip to Krabi the weekend of August 10th with some friends we met here. This will hopefully provide us with some needed R&R after a whirlwind couple of weeks.
More pics will come I promise! Hopefully by this weekend we will internet.
Update on School: Colby's classroom is coming together. She has been in meeting after meeting, and we are thanking ourselves for getting here a week earlier to set up living arrangements. The teachers who just rolled in have a lot on their hands. She is out getting her blood drawn and a physical today for health insurance, and it looks like I will be able to get out of that one...HALLELUJAH.
Update on Minburi: The neighborhood we are in, and the part of Bangkok is very Thai, and has very very few foreigners. The reason is its far from downtown, and transportation is not easy out here. Today I will be working out some of the bus system, but there is one main artery that goes out this way, and all the neighborhoods just spring off that street, but only connect to it and no others. So traffic can get awful. The good side of living by the school is we are a 7 minute bike ride. As for our immediate surroundings however, there really is not many attractions.
We do have two main market streets a short walk or bike ride away from us. I jogged down to one of these yesterday morning, and it was bustling. Trucks with fresh vegetables were selling their goods right on the side of their road, more street food vendors than you could count, and crowds of Thai's. Have not seen another foreigner while at these streets, so it is interesting getting the strange looks from the locals, mostly friendly and curious.
I'm meeting with some other non teaching spouses today to talk about other opportunities they have run into while being here, some teaching at other international schools, universities, tutors, etc. Still exploring some options.
We are planning a trip to Krabi the weekend of August 10th with some friends we met here. This will hopefully provide us with some needed R&R after a whirlwind couple of weeks.
More pics will come I promise! Hopefully by this weekend we will internet.
How Thai ladies ride Motorbike taxis
Finally ordered a drip coffee. Hard to find without lots of sweets.
Very Thai street some friends live on. Almost all have gates, very detailed. Interesting street getting to this one...
Fresh coconut. 13 Baht.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Sawatdee
Colby and I have been very busy over the past couple of days. A group of the veteran teachers at the school took us for a tour of Ruamrudee yesterday, and a market. We also toured a few neighborhoods, and and they helped with all of our questions. We contact a realtor a few weeks ago, and on our first day called her up and toured several houses. I am glad we did this, as everyone else is going today and tomorrow, which gave us first choice, and some people are scrambling right now unable to find housing. We are moving into a townhouse very close to the school so the commute will be very short. It is not a very Thai neighborhood, but the alternative would have been a 45min (with light traffic) commute vs. 5-10 minutes. We'll post some pics when we move in tomorrow.
The weather has been crazy. It is not very hot (high 80's) but it is very humid, with occasional thunderstorms. The thunderstorms are not like our thunderstorms, and rain is not like Oregon rain. Oh no. All the sudden it will get dark and the sky will open up. It will dump rain so hard you can barley talk to eachother. The streets have flooded twice, making some roads nearly impassable, but this does not seem to bother the Thais. You see a little shrug, then they just power their bike, motorbike, or car right through it nearly floating away.
The food has been great. Last night we met with a family from Hood River (also teaching at the school) and someone they had met that lives near them for dinner. We ate a this open air restaurant in Samakorn (spelling) right on a lake. We had some seafood over rice, pad thai, and numerous other dishes, all delicious and about $3/plate. We ordered some Singha beer, and they bring it out with a glass of ice, and pour your beer in into the glass. Caught me off guard, but I think they do this because it is so hot your beer warms up before you can finish it. We had a glass of wine with dinner the other night, and they brought the red wine out chilled for the same reason. The beer I can do, the wine however, I am having a hard time with. At $20/bottle for the equivalent of "Two Buck Chuck" I guess we wont be drinking too much wine anyways.
During last nights dinner on the lake, I saw something swimming across the lake, which I exclaimed to the group it may be a beaver. Try a 4' long Monitor lizard! Way off. Dillon and Annika (kids of the hood river couple) had a blast watching these guys.
Today while everyone else is looking at houses with realtors, I think Colby and I will be exploring a little bit, and taking care of some errands. This weekend we are thinking about heading to Chatuchak Weekend Market (largest in Thailand).
Hope everyone is doing well, more to come! Will pos more pictures when we take them. We've been so busy.
Love Ryan and Colby
The weather has been crazy. It is not very hot (high 80's) but it is very humid, with occasional thunderstorms. The thunderstorms are not like our thunderstorms, and rain is not like Oregon rain. Oh no. All the sudden it will get dark and the sky will open up. It will dump rain so hard you can barley talk to eachother. The streets have flooded twice, making some roads nearly impassable, but this does not seem to bother the Thais. You see a little shrug, then they just power their bike, motorbike, or car right through it nearly floating away.
The food has been great. Last night we met with a family from Hood River (also teaching at the school) and someone they had met that lives near them for dinner. We ate a this open air restaurant in Samakorn (spelling) right on a lake. We had some seafood over rice, pad thai, and numerous other dishes, all delicious and about $3/plate. We ordered some Singha beer, and they bring it out with a glass of ice, and pour your beer in into the glass. Caught me off guard, but I think they do this because it is so hot your beer warms up before you can finish it. We had a glass of wine with dinner the other night, and they brought the red wine out chilled for the same reason. The beer I can do, the wine however, I am having a hard time with. At $20/bottle for the equivalent of "Two Buck Chuck" I guess we wont be drinking too much wine anyways.
During last nights dinner on the lake, I saw something swimming across the lake, which I exclaimed to the group it may be a beaver. Try a 4' long Monitor lizard! Way off. Dillon and Annika (kids of the hood river couple) had a blast watching these guys.
Today while everyone else is looking at houses with realtors, I think Colby and I will be exploring a little bit, and taking care of some errands. This weekend we are thinking about heading to Chatuchak Weekend Market (largest in Thailand).
Hope everyone is doing well, more to come! Will pos more pictures when we take them. We've been so busy.
Love Ryan and Colby
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Here we go!!!
With our lives packed up in 7 bags, we are finally ready for our big adventure. There has been so much anticipation for this day. We are still crossing our fingers to make sure we didn't forget anything( to late now!) Both of our phone numbers will be disconnected so feel free to email us at either: colbyehood@gmail.com or ryanchood@gmail.com. Those of you that have iPhone's we can still iMessage for free internationally as long as our contact info has our email and we have your email as well in ours. We are about ready to board our plane to Hong Kong for our long 15 hour flight. There will be plenty of movies, games and hopefully sleeping.
-Love,
The Hoods
-Love,
The Hoods
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