Sara Sarver

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wow is all I have to say.  Seriously.  Wow. Now, to the rest of you, to whom I may sound like just another a blabbering girly girl hyped up over something insignificant, I say “whatever.”  With the kindest smile, of course.  :) Today, Brook and I had a few hours to kill between lessons and [...]

It’s been almost a year (10 months now) since we left home in the Midwestern States of the good ol’ USA.  A lot has happened, a lot has changed, and there’s been a TON of adjusting going on.  The first time we lived in Thailand (in 2005), we were only here for 6+ months, were [...]

Things aren’t always what they seem! By residing in a foreign country, I’ve willingly subjected myself to living every single day not fully understanding or knowing what’s going on around me.  No, I’m not saying I’ve become an airhead or unaware of myself or anything – rather, I am not in a place where I [...]

Hey Dad, Every day I wonder what it’s like where you are now.  If it’s all angels and clouds, with singing all around, like the movies tell us… if you’re sitting in a fishing boat somewhere chatting it up with Moses, drinking root beer, and eating an ice cream bucket full of chocolate chip cookies [...]

So, today our errand-running didn’t start out the greatest. After a week of either the post office being closed or being completely inaccessible due to the Songkraan holiday, we were ready to pick up whatever had arrived. Among whatever mail may have come, there is certainly at least one package from home, possibly two. You [...]

Coping mechanisms.  We all have them.  We all do them.  And, most of the time, they make us feel better, right?  Kind of.  Changingminds.org has this to say: “We are complex animals living complex lives in which we are not always able to cope with the difficulties that we face. As a result, we are [...]

Skype is a beautiful thing. We’ve been in Singapore for the past month, taking care of business at the international headquarters for our organization (which is why you’ve not been getting posts out of me), and yesterday morning, before heading to the airport for our flight back to Thailand, we had a Skype date to [...]