legend23

My first 90 day report experience.

On the Tuesday before the election, I took my prefilled and printed TM47 (available as a word file on TV) and went to Immigration, with a pic of my visa page and departure card page at 11:53am. I went to the first counter just inside the door and was advised to go straight to the far counter and give them my stuff. Within 2 minutes, the guy gave me back everything not needed and my passport and I was out of there. No numbers needed. Nothing. All done and dusted. Under 5 minutes from getting off my bike.

No if only each subsequent time will be as easy, who knows, but I just thought I would let you know and give you the form required.

Good luck!!!

Here's one I prepared earlier.

It is only economy air, but I hope it helps. I would suggest that smaller packets would be cheaper. See attached.

Thai Postage Rates.pdf

That site has all the good information for the whole of Thailand.

http://www.tmd.go.th/en/climate.php?FileID=3

On the left is the monthly stats and click on more details and for each month a very thorough pdf comes up. Some of the rainfall stats for March are incredible 400mm down south. Also CM up to may is 200mm over average for the year.

I though it was a bit wetter than it should be. What does this mean for the rest of the year????

The why not restaurant is on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/whynotchiangmai - plenty of up to date info there.

Posted earlier - Why Not? Mediterranean Restaurant

Dear customers, we regret to inform you that the lunch service is temporarily suspended. the buffet will begin daily at 17.00. best regards

July 4 at 5:50pm

Thaicbr - Absolute GOLD!!!! Thanks!!!!

If you look at many things government orchestrated in any country, things get overlooked, like the details. Add up the numbers for the actual thing and multiply it by a lot then you have a "budget" figure. The implementation costs generally double or triple the "budget" figure.

They will probably implement it the wrong way and everyone will lose, except for the supplier and the opposition who will gain political capital.

There are so many good ideas coming out of this topic but no one in Govt will be looking here to assist in the policy making, I'm sure. Keep up the great works guys.

As for Thai teaching standards at all levels, I have a degree qualified accountant friend who can't multiply 700 x 8 without using a calculator, yet a mountain girl with grade 4 can do 45 x 6 in her head. It scares me. And they won't try either!!!

I generally use this forum for information gathering, the community here is amazing in it's ability to share quality and mostly thoughtful posts on all things Thai. Awesome work!!! Thank you.

I only generally post when I read the topic and find I have something useful to add. I am not a teacher's shoelace, just like I am not much of anything, but I have come to Thailand volunteer and to do whatever I can to help, and when I say help, it is not splashing the cash, as I have none, but generally trying to give assistance where I can.

One of these activities where I help, is teaching one hour a week of English to a couple of school grades in local schools. The school's themselves only have two to three hours of English per week and having me or someone from our team, that is a chunk out of the teacher's time. Sometimes we follow the school curriculum and other times we use our own.

I am no expert but have gained a fair understanding of the practices of the schools we work in. Our English contact teacher(usually has limited English) so that is not helpful and most teachers couldn't even care about English. One thing though, I get respect from all my students, how by treating them the same, give them respect.

Translator - you need a translator. There would be no possible way to teach English successfully without a translator. You may have all the teaching qualifications in the world, but if you have little or no Thai language, your useless. After a year here, I am just about ready to go into a class room solo, although our process is to always have a native speaker with us.

I don't really think this plan will work. I think this mostly because of my last point. You can say the words and they will learn them by rote but will have no idea what they mean unless they're explained. Dead set - if I had one baht for every time a person or class said, "I am fine thank you and you?" I wouldn't need the 83K salary. They even say it, when you don't say anything.

Another thing is apart from the 3 class hours, English is not used anywhere, at home, the market or at play, so what kind of difference can you make - one or two percent.

Just a few thoughts, hopefully useful.

Thanks again for being such an entertaining and helpful community, someday I will get more into posting here. Love your work!!!

When I visit the airport the rates are generally the same or slightly better than most places. So it doesn't really matter. Which is very strange compared to most international airports.

In Australia and you get caught for drunk driving you lose your licence for a year, but if you are a habitual drunk driver they keep giving your licence back. I think if you get caught a second time it should be a mandatory 6 months jail, without even having to clog up the courts. Just take them straight to the lockup.

What do they do in Thailand??? Especially considering a lot of people don't even have licences to begin with.

This guy is so lucky he could have killed so many more people or doesn't that matter.

I am no guru of politics or Thailand. I have been in Thailand for just two months. I live miles away from any activities or goings on. Sometime down the track all this may have an effect on me, but currently not.

I don't know the full story of everything, but I was told that the Red Shirts were promising to give money to all the protesters at the end of the protest. I was skeptical about this because I had feelings it would not end orderly.

I feel sorry for all those protesters who were promised lots of baht to sit in and demonstrate against the Govt, now they have either been killed or scattered, some wouldn't have ID cards because they had to give them in to receive their money at the end. If they left early they got nothing either. The only winners are NOONE!!!

This is a beautiful place to live, the people are beautiful and so friendly but no one will come here for a long time because of this craziness. All it has hurt is the people and the tourism. When will the Land of Smiles be able to smile again???