Sara Sarver

Another reason to be thankful for where I live? I took these photos yesterday within an hour’s drive from my house – Khun DanDam, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand Nang Rong Falls, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand Thailand is so beautiful.

Today, we took a trip with our new friends/neighbors/Thai family to the edge of Khao Yai National Park.  It was originally a trip to look at shrubbery and flowers for our yard, as they are fellow gardeners and knew the best places with the best prices for us to see… and then it turned into [...]

It’s been killing me (figuratively, of course) not being able to write anything on here about all that’s gone down in the last two and a half weeks.  Seriously.  So much has changed. We moved. No longer residents of Lopburi, Thailand… now citizens of greater Bangkok.  And, it’s wonderful.  Seriously wonderful.  I honestly can’t begin [...]

Sunday afternoon, my house smelled like both a bakery and an Italian restaurant.  Why?  I spent a good portion of the day baking the cookies I told you about yesterday, as well as making a rich homemade tomato sauce for today’s lunch.  Yum. After having talked with the teachers about preparing our final meal together [...]

If you follow me either on Facebook or Twitter, I am sure you’ve seen numerous messages regarding our upcoming move to Bangkok later this week. Can you tell we’re excited?! Along with the flurry of good emotions that seem to be flying around right now, there are a few that aren’t so great, too. Moving [...]

Yay!  Yippee!  Yahoo!  I’ve finished my first year of full-time Thai studies at OMF‘s language center here in Lopburi, Thailand.  The day I, at times, never thought would come… yet, at the same time, arrived so quickly! The craziest thing about this – aside from the fact that I can now read and write a [...]