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might be a good move when The Donald wins the gop to get Carson as his running mate to control the majority vote. clinton is just a bad joke.

wonder what would happen if the Patpong bunch all got dressed up in red and paraded around with signs supporting their fashion idol? Make for some good aftermath pointing pictures with the soldiers and police.

The REAL ALE Renaissance , to give it it's proper title, began in England during the 70s. Shortly after, CAMRA was formed by a

group of beer enthusiasts, to promote their cause. The brewing industry at this time was dominated by a handfull of huge companies. Real Ale was so successful that small breweries sprang up and thrived. Even the big companies were forced to offer traditional type beers, instead of the pressurised kegs which had become their main products.

The Americans joined the trend later, they did NOT initiate it.

There used to be a standing British joke, that American Beer is "like making love in a canoe" (it's <deleted>??ING CLOSE TO WATER!)

Homebrewing has been going on as long as beer has been made. In colonial America many of our forefathers were homebrewers including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin.

As America became more industrialized homebrewing fell out of fashion and officially became illegal with the enactment of Prohibition in 1919. Prohibition came to an end in 1933 with the passing of the 21^st Amendment but brewing beer at home remained illegal due to a clerical error that left out two important words “and beer” from the statute that legalized home winemaking.

To the O/P

You might also check this out: http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/abroad/legal-matters/academic-credentials.html

Authentication of American Academic Credentials for Use Abroad I. Colleges, Universities and Other Post-Secondary Institutions

1. Obtain from the registrar of the University an official true copy of the credentials. The registrar should then execute an affidavit attesting to the validity of the document before a notary public. Frequently the business offices of colleges and universities have notaries public.
2. Take the document, with the notarial certificate to the state Notary Public Administrator for authentication. If the country where the document will be used is a party to the Hague Apostille Convention, the state Notary Public Administrator will affix an Apostille certificate and no further authentication is necessary. See the Hague Conference on Private International Law Apostille Page for a current list of countries party to the treaty. The treaty is in force many countries throughout the world.
3. If the country is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention, the state Notary Public Administrator will affix a state authentication certificate. You should then send the document to the Authentications Office of the Department of State, following the instruction on that office’s web page.
4. If necessary, obtain authentication of the U.S. Department of State seal at the foreign embassy in Washington, D.C. The embassy in Washington, DC of the country in which the document is to be used can tell you if this is required.

seems like an awfully lot to help kids learn that the wheels on a bus do in fact, go round and round.

You MUST do the 90 report even if you do the visa extension - they are totally separate requirements. Getting a new visa extension does NOT cover you for doing a 90 day report.

Because your wife left the country she may have to do her first new 90 day report in person, not on-line.

as I posted earlier - the new 30-Day Pending stamp on non-O visa/extentions is a new thing that does seem to superceed the 90-Day. Or maybe I just got lucky and have a great IO to work with.

I'd just get all your paperwork together and apply for the new exstention on the 15th or 16th of Oct. Now, depending on where you are and who you deal with and if they are nice, you could get your "30-Day Pending" stamp which would effectively reset both of you for your 90-Day report(s) and resync yourselves at the same time. I just did this with my marriage extention. They told me not to worry about the 90-day because of the application and the pending stamp. They would do everything when the approval came through. And, they Did!

ETA: Hope it's OK to give a shout out to Chocheansoa Immigration for always being 100% decent and helpful.

In America I would have jumped in IF I had seen how it began ~ Here, not in a million years. I wouldn't have helped if yellow shirt had been carrying 2 babies and dragging a toddler.

I'd end up getting sued by both of them. Sure glad I don't live in a city.

On another note that lostinisaan touched on: Smartphones; I encourage their use in class, BUT, I encourage their use as an educational tool. Most of these kids have no idea that the smartphone has more than 4 apps.

With where the country and the world is headed, the age group you're getting will NEED to know how to do research on the fly, especially by the time they reach university level. My only rule, "Players Will Be Had" meaning they lose their phone for the duration of that class and are then forced to find someone willing to help them do things correctly. It takes a few classes but they catch on quickly and soon learn to save the "playing" for the thai teacher's classes.

Being in Bangkok you may fair better than most of the provinces but don't be caught off gaurd if many can not even spell their own nickname in English let alone understand what you want them to do outside of "Copy". The quickest way to understanding is familiarity of subject matter. Nobody in Thailand, especially young students, give 2 craps about how "Little Tommy" gets along with life in the UK. (most textbooks are British based with some of the new ones coming out of Singapore) Another thing to be aware of; you may NOT have ANY books for the students so make friends with the "Copy/Print" staff for quick return times on your handouts.

Be very flexible in your timetable as most government schools have around 118 holiday days off, 40 - 50 days of "Special Activities" for the holidays they don't close and other assorted activities that you may or may not know about beforehand. You'll show up to your classroom to find it empty only to learn later; "Oh, police come. Students learn about drugs today".

So OP, you've bought a new pair of trunks and decided to lean how to swim by diving off the highest diving platform into the deepest end of the pool huh? I was snickering a bit reading through most of these posts as most don't seem to know the difference between teaching and entertaining/surviving the class.

I presently teach M1 and M2 students in a government school with 40 - 50 kids in each of my 20 classes. The 1st thing I can say is Thank God and Buddha that it is NOT in Bangkok. These are the "raging hormone" age groups so try to remember what that was like and take many of their actions with a grain of salt.

It's hard to tell you what to do as I have no idea of your age/experience/education/etc. There's just so much that can be said but you'll learn as you go. There are NO hard and fast rules that will work for discipline, lessons, elicitation, etc. The things I do come from 15 years of teaching in Thailand and may or may not work for you.

Be patient, understanding, able to adapt to any given situation in a moment’s notice (there will be many), learn your students (actions, emotions, personalities, etc.).

The level of difficulty you can expect corresponds directly with the class number (as a 95% rule). M1/1 and M2/1 will be a dream while M1/10 (and higher) and M2/10 (and higher) will require the use of a whip and a chair.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

ps. starting next semester, many government schools are stopping lessons at 2pm

My fellow “farang” and I are putting together an English Club with voluntary enrollment. We're calling it "Little America" (even though my colleague is British). We'll have "Movie Day" to include critiquing as they get better in English, a music venue for listening and discussion, a proper library (as much as we can swing out here in the provinces) and skits/short plays to offer a dramatic outlet to assist learning and speaking/pronunciation practice in a lighthearted session.

Participation will be mandatory but enrollment, as I said, will be voluntary.

The rules are going to be very simple and straightforward ~ when you enter "The Club" you'll have left Thailand and entered America where no one speaks Thai. Everything is to be done 100% in English.

We teach at a government mathayom school so we KNOW that 98% of the students can't hold a meaningful conversation in English. It'll be a grind at the very least and a complete joy at best.

We both have realistic outlooks on how things will go and do NOT expect miracles overnight.

I know the haters are going to hate this idea but hey, I AM a teacher and this seems like it may well be an opportunity to help the aspiring students with no pressure on them.

I worked at a school in Bang Bon where a lesbian Thai teacher had one of her 6 year old boys drop his trousers then squeezed his balls until he was shrieking in pain. We reported this to the director who basically told us foreign teachers to mind our own business.

Thainess at its finest.

I'm doing an English Camp for a primary school down in Bang Bon next week - should I be concerned it's the same school?

The 90 day address report is simply the law. Guess past govts and the current govt feel it's needed to properly keep track of farangs.

Wouldn't it be much better if they just treated us like wildlife? Sneak up on us 1 by 1, tranquilize us, eletronicly tag us and release back into the wild. That way we could just go about our business and they could fly around and take notes.

"Yingluck was Thailand's prime minister from 2011 until a controversial court decision forced her from office in May 2014, just a few days before the military staged a coup to overthrow her government. She was impeached earlier this year in connection with the money-losing rice subsidy scheme and barred her from office for five years. The attorney-general then pressed criminal charges against her over the same matter.

In her court filing Tuesday, Yingluck said the attorney-general and others were guilty of negligence of duty and a concerted effort to damage her, citing three alleged legal violations punishable by a range of 6 months to 10 years in prison. The court will decide whether to let the case proceed or throw it out."

"Yingluck was accompanied by her brother-in-law, Somchai Wongsawat, himself a former prime minister who was also ousted by the courts, in a 2008 decision."

So she brought this guy as a charater refrence?

"Both Yingluck and Somchai are political allies and relatives of Thaksin, who was ousted by a 2006 military coup. Yingluck is Thaksin's sister and Somchai is married to another of Thaksin's sisters.

Thaksin fled into exile in 2008 to avoid a prison sentence on a corruption-related charge he says was engineered by his political foes, jealous of his popularity."

as if she needed a moral charater refrence as well.

" If "malfeasance and negligent behavior" were applied in cases against all politicians, the halls of power all over Thailand would look like the rapture had taken them all to heaven....." there might start to be a change in the world that says "We're freaking tired of this"

corrected it for you.

Prosicute her? They ought to fly her the largest mall in the world, drop her off and cancel all her credits cards just to watch her feel like the farmers who commited suicide over her thievery.

"It will also form more than 300 teams of smart trainers for the purpose," he said. Well, there's my daily chuckle.

Take a drive up to Trat and visit the King's first hydro-electric project. Then swing over to the Chokchai farms and have a tour of there plus some of the best ice-cream in Thailand. From there you are close to Don Luieng (or however it's spelled -in Korat province) the famous pottery place where they make all those figuines and baked jewelry. Near there is a place where you can make your own customized outdoor umbrellas.

It would also be a plus if you all played golf because there's some incrediblt mountain courses in those areas as well.

"...cubs with sexy dancing..." Where does one find young bears dancing sexily? And, it seems it's ok for the minors to be there as long as they don't drink, gamble or do drugs.

Where falang there Thais there ways are there ways

Remember they do not like to deal with us anyway

The only time they do is if there getting cash so I would not be concerned

^^ this just confuses me

OP - you have a four room condo??

King Cobra hunting with Rambo in the jungle?

Thailand doesn't need to be the "Hub of Education" anymore. They now hold the claim to being the "Hub of Metorite Fragmants Scattered Over an Entire National Park".

Better than soi Biniban (HH Bar area) are the newest bars opening on the the other side of the tracks and the Hilton hotel after mid-night.

you can drive across Hua-Hin in 20 minutes. Why not stop by, get the form, go eat breakfast and drop it off on your way home? Believing in the reliability of thai technolgy is similar to depending on the tooth fairy for your next beer.

A couple of things need clarifying: If you have a Non-O permission to visit the wife visa you are not allowed to work. If you have a Non-O Marriage visa/extention you are allowed to work and do not need to change it to a Non-B. If you have a Non-O visa/extention based on retirement, you are not allowed to work. If you have any type of Tourist Visa you are not allowed to work.

Which do you have?

The Non-O Permission to visit wife visa can be converted into a Non-O Marriage visa/extention in country.

A Tourist Visa can be converted to a Non-B visa in country as long as you have more that 15 (?) days left.

A Tourist Visa can be converted to a Non-O Marriage Visa in country as long as you have 30 (?) days left.

UdonJoe would be the best 1 to ask but I'm about 95% sure I'm correct.

I feel for the newbies just coming on board. I had 1 of the 1st, lifetime teacher licences that were issued some 14 yrs ago. That was valid until I changed schools. Used it, the culture course and my B.ed to get the new teacher licence from the newly established krusapa (TCT) 7 years ago and my newest renewal last yr. 7 page long form and copies of everything I've done to improve thai teachers and myself with 300 baht, wait 6 months from that last back log caused by the coup and I'm in like flynn. Don't need to worry about it again until the beginning of 2019. Probably require DNA samples by then.

Depending on your nationality, you may be able to just go to your embassy and get an affidavit of income as proff of funds. Then you should be able to just go to your local immigration office and have your current visa changed to a Non-O based on marriage. No run required. Have the wife call them and ask.

I just renewed (re-extended) my Non-O marriage visa last week and it was delayed while the police came over to my house and made sure I wasn't a bomber and that I had a valid receipt for the correct amount from immigration. The funniest part was, these police officers have been my nieghbors for 10 years. Many of them came to my wedding and we attend the same temple for funnerals and festivals.

We had a few laughs, shared a couple of beers and took some selfies and that was that. It's orders from the "big boys" trickling down that are making things stranger.