Hmmm, It's Been a While

Well, sorry to all of you fans (Moms, Dads, and Heather :) for not updating on a regular basis. We have been doing the daily grind of work for a couple months now and have just not been motivated enough to post. Yes, to all those of you that are wondering, we actually were able to convince someone here to hire us!

We are teachers for the first time in our lives. Kelly is teaching Kindergarten levels two and three for an ESL program in an all Thai school. I am a homeroom teacher for a 1st grade class in the "English" school, where they are supposed to have some basic comprehension of English to be enrolled. Both of our jobs have been an eye opening experience and have kept us quite busy.

We are living just outside of Phuket Town on the island of Phuket in the south. The island is quite large (would take several hours to drive around it) with many beaches and even more resorts. The main tourist season kicks off in mid to late October, and it supposedly gets a little crazy around here. All in all we are loving the tropical island life, even though we are in the middle of monsoon/hot as hell season.

We did recently have a great break from the routine when we took a trip back to the States for my brothers wedding! I was there for almost two weeks and Kelly came for the wedding weekend and got to visit her family in Colorado for a short time. It was good fun and we've posted pics of the wedding on the albums site.



As for our day to day life now... we have rented a small house that is attached to other small houses in a Thai neighborhood. We have two small motorbikes to get around with and spend a lot of our free time "hanging out". Really life isn't drastically different from living in the states. We have bought a small couch, go grocery shopping every week, and have to drop our clothes off at the "laundromat" every weekend. Of course it's a little different because the "laundromat" consists of leaving our clothes in a basket at someones house and coming back the next day to find them neatly folded, clean, and back in the basket!

The times that we really notice that we are in Thailand are often the little things. Seeing geckos on the walls or clinging to a roll of paper towels, or trying to have Kelly ride side saddle on the back of a motorbike so that her skirt stays in place, or within a short drive from the house being on a beautiful white sand beach surrounded by lush rainforest! Another strange thing is paying the monthly water and electricity bill at one of the million 7-11's near our house, I can't say that I've ever done that back home.

We have also uploaded some pics of our schools, kids, house and such for your viewing pleasure. Please email us and let us know how you all are doing! Or you could try and connect with us on skype, either screen name topgun997 or "kelly.krohn".



Hopefully everyone is living life to the fullest, and looking at plane flights to come visit! We have a couch that anyone is more than invited to crash on (well almost anyone).

PS: And yes that is me in the pictures with the long hippy hair, it is still my testament of freedom from the Navy! Take a second and vote in the right hand column on whether you feel like I should keep it or not. (Steve, don't stay up all night voting for the mullet, let's be honest, it's going to happen anyway.)