News of Home

In 7 weeks spent in Thailand I have only once been able to read the news. Alone in a mall several stories high I ‘happened upon’ a Starbucks where I bought a coffee :) and read The Bangkok Post, an English language newspaper. It was so good to feel normal for half an hour before I had to search for the young’uns.

Yesterday at the start of the lesson in our Spoken English class I told the Japanese students that the Emperor of Japan had a Grandson. They had not read or heard the news either and it felt like a priviledge to tell them. ‘A son?’ they asked, checking to be sure they had heard it correctly. “Yes, a Grandson for the Emperor” I affirmed. First son born into the Japanese royal family in 46 years, they were all delighted.

News of home, best news of all, best warmer we could have had!