Living in the Rose of the North
Chiang Mai is sometimes called "The Rose of the North". For us, life in Chiang Mai was not all language study and going to and from villages. We also had a home life. What did we do? A lot of reading and letter writing to be sure, but other things as well. All in all, it was pretty rosy. Marcia at home with Somjit in our Chiang Mai kitchen To keep up with news, there was the Bangkok Post. It is an English language newspaper that we would read regularly. The Thai government keeps an eye on how Thai news is reported but I always felt the Bangkok Post did a pretty good job of reporting international news including what was happening in the US. There is a second English language newspaper in Thailand called The Nation but for some reason, we generally preferred the Bangkok Post. Both the Post and The Nation have online editions now-a-days and we’ll still occasionally tune in to read up on Thai related events. While we were in the mission house in Chiang Mai the street had ...
