So, we've been back for a while...
Feb. 22nd, 2005 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zcat_abroadAnd I finally get a chance to update. In fact, a month tomorrow. It's been mostly all good. SOOOOOO nice to be able to breathe the air!! I keep taking deep breaths of honey-scented air, and not being able to believe my luck at being the citizen of such a beautiful country.
I'm now working back at my old school (where I've been working, on and off, for just over 5 years, now!). I'm running around trying to keep a group of Thai teachers happy, and not having to teach! (Joy, joy!) This is temporary, until I start my PhD in the second half of this year.
It's been good to see family, and great to catch up with friends (though there are some I'm having difficulty finding). I guess we haven't been away for so long, but it felt like YEARS to us.
We recieved a computer on the weekend (price: one case of beer, p.k.f.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zcatcurious's brother, followed by a computer table (price: yet to be decided, p.k.f. doc_spatial, indirectly, via. poing_critter). So now I can start research to enable me to start research later.
On a final useless note, no, I am not going to change my user name. For two reasons. The first is that, as was pointed out to me, I am still "zcat, a broad". I hadn't thought of that when I chose my name - I was only thinking of the one word version - but it works! The second is that, while I'm back here in NZ, I'm still not home, and even if I were to go to Phuket, I wouldn't really be home, because I am NOT Thai (despite my trouble in speaking English around these Thai teachers), and so will always stick out like a sore thumb. So I have decided that I am permanently abroad, and am happy there.
(And in other news, I know the Tsunami thing is old news, but there is on-going work there. For continued updates from Thailand - see my web-page on www.geocities.com/zcatcurious/Rawai.html It will be updated again sometime this week.)
I'm now working back at my old school (where I've been working, on and off, for just over 5 years, now!). I'm running around trying to keep a group of Thai teachers happy, and not having to teach! (Joy, joy!) This is temporary, until I start my PhD in the second half of this year.
It's been good to see family, and great to catch up with friends (though there are some I'm having difficulty finding). I guess we haven't been away for so long, but it felt like YEARS to us.
We recieved a computer on the weekend (price: one case of beer, p.k.f.
zcatcurious's brother, followed by a computer table (price: yet to be decided, p.k.f. doc_spatial, indirectly, via. poing_critter). So now I can start research to enable me to start research later.On a final useless note, no, I am not going to change my user name. For two reasons. The first is that, as was pointed out to me, I am still "zcat, a broad". I hadn't thought of that when I chose my name - I was only thinking of the one word version - but it works! The second is that, while I'm back here in NZ, I'm still not home, and even if I were to go to Phuket, I wouldn't really be home, because I am NOT Thai (despite my trouble in speaking English around these Thai teachers), and so will always stick out like a sore thumb. So I have decided that I am permanently abroad, and am happy there.
(And in other news, I know the Tsunami thing is old news, but there is on-going work there. For continued updates from Thailand - see my web-page on www.geocities.com/zcatcurious/Rawai.html It will be updated again sometime this week.)
