Sara Sarver

It’s one thing to simply learn a foreign language in order to be able to both understand and speak its words well. It’s another to understand the culture from which the language comes. And, it’s a whole other thing to try combining the two so you can understand what people actually mean when they are [...]

Here it is again – the e-copy of our regular mailable newsletter. There may not be much new to you if you follow either Brook or I here on our blogs, on Facebook, or even on Twitter… but, go ahead and check it out anyway.  :)  Just click the image below to begin downloading. If [...]

When residing outside your country of origin, it’s pretty interesting to see which bits of your home culture are pulled out and used to identify you by the people in other nations.  Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don’t.  Sometimes it can make you laugh, sometimes it can make you angry.  Whatever it is, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Boy, has it been busy around here again this past week, and it will continue to be for at least the next 10 days.  Why?  Well, we were in a part of Thailand called Khao Yai from this past Thursday morning through Sunday afternoon (without internet, thus, no blogging)… Spent all of Monday running around [...]

Indiana Jones would NOT have wanted to come into our house this morning.  No, sir!  Why?  Because we had a snake in our living room.  Yes, INSIDE the house.  I am still shuddering at the thought of it.  Yes, I love all creatures great and small, but when it slithers and I don’t know enough [...]

If you like potatoes and beef, you will probably like Massaman Curry. Check it out. Let’s start with the name – Massaman Curry.  The term Massaman actually comes from an old word meaning “Muslim.”  Though known as a Southern Thai dish, the spices that are used to make the curry paste for this meal are [...]