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Thai man loses 372,000 baht to nursing student in scam wedding
oh you just such a perfect guy and your relationship is just perfect, you must be god .. -
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Morning Joe Ratings Plummet After Hosts' Meeting With Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Could you clarify , who are you calling a fascist, who are you calling a Nazi and who are you calling a moron ? -
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Gop Speaker places a ban in the Capitol restrooms…
Nope, the supporters of men going into Womans restrooms are extremely aggressive towards resisting! Tradition is under attack like never before! -
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Europe Braces for Escalation: Germany Mobilizes NATO Troops Amid Putin's Nuclear Threats
It's pointless, the bloke worries about money, not innocent lives.............🥴 -
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RFK Jr. compared Trump to Hitler and his fans idiots
It matters to know what a totally corrupt unprincipled sleazeball he is. Like Vance. -
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Day-to-day life in Myanmar
Thanks for the kind comments everyone. I'll add my replies at the bottom of this post 🙂 Today (Friday), I only had 2 science lessons in the morning to teach. (My school employs me on an hourly basis, so I don't have to stay on the premises if I have no lessons to teach). Therefore, after completing my teaching obligations, I jumped into a yellow taxi to visit a colour print shop. 8 years ago when I last taught in Mandalay, these little taxis didn't exist. I think they have been imported from India. Now there are hundred of them all over the city. At the colour print shop I needed to initiate some printing for my educational charity >> large A2 size vocabularly posters and sets of A-Z flash cards. A flashcard set (A6 size) will cost me about $10 USD and each poster will cost about $7 USD. The actual exchange rate is highly variable - anything between 2,000 - 5,000 kyat to $1 USD. I don't have to pay in USD, so the converted rate is just for my own information. But the price is certainly more expensive than my previous visits. Posters and cards are printed on heavy vinyl paper, and that's where the cost comes in. To provide alphabet sets and poster sets for each school will cost me about $50 per school, and there are many schools.... I might invest in an A2 printer if it works out cheaper! Here's one of the vocab posters that I designed. The code number against each fruit can be entered into the free Android app that I wrote some years ago, and the student can then listen to my dulcit tones pronouncing the word correctly. Next I walked up the dusty streets to check out a hotel as a possible long-term location to stay. The monthly rate for a room, as quoted on the internet was about $600, (my school will pay 50% of that fee). However, the hotel reception quoted me the ludicrous price of $1,100 USD for a small room per month. I declined their offer! Outside the hotel was a rather nice mobile petrol station 🙂 Feeling hot, I took another taxi to CityMart, where I ordered Shan Noodles. This tasty dish is very easy to remember to say in Burmese. It's "Shan Kao Sway", which sounds just like the Thai words for white rice! Once around the busy Citymart to buy my food and home again in a tuk-tuk taxi. Throughout my 3 hour trip, not a single foreigner was seen.... No chance of this happening anytime soon 😞 @Hummin - you can only transfer money in using Western Union (it's always been like this for yonks). My local currency was running low, so with some trepidation I put my Payoneer debit card into a local bank ATM (hoping that it wouldn't 'eat' it). Lucky for me, it all worked fine and spat out 3 million kyat, about $100 USD. The decent beach on the west coast is currently the scene of heavy fighting! Here it is in more peaceful days. Food prices have definitely increased since my last visit. Hardly surprising, considering the inflation rate and difficulty to source goods... @ChiangMai, the personal risk level is very low. Of course, anger that the local people feel is not directed towards foreigners. The risk is simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I make wide detours around police checkpoints/boxes, in case someone decides to start shooting! -
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Europe Braces for Escalation: Germany Mobilizes NATO Troops Amid Putin's Nuclear Threats
Sadly now increasing numbers of countries are closing their doors on Diplomatic services and advising citizens to look for shelter one way or other. -
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RFK Jr. compared Trump to Hitler and his fans idiots
The world lost. Don't bother with the obnoxious unsoliticed personal advice.
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