This week in our history classes we learned more about the ancient kingdoms that existed before modern-day Thailand. Political culture is in many cases closely related to ethnicity and cultural heritage which, due to the mixing of cultures and kingdoms in its early history, has made learning about Thailand especially interesting. Jumping back to 1200…

This week featured yet another lovely van ride (I’ve lost count of how many this has been) and headed up north to visit what is called the Golden Triangle. You can kind of think about it as similar to the four corners in America, but instead of it being the intersection of states, it is…

This past week we learned more about the early Thai history and some of the themes that you see repeated throughout it. I know that I’ve talked about Buddhism a little in past blogs, but it really has had a huge impact on the culture here in Thailand. This is of course a huge question…

Just wrapping up here on what was a long but very productive week! As part of the research that we’re doing here this summer, one of our main goals is to create and send out a survey which we can then analyze the results of this fall. We’ve got a good draft of it going…