Ornate sand carvings at a local temple in Chiang Mai
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Chris, Tanya, & Chase
A Teacher, a Traveler, a Yogini, a Caregiver, a Wife, and a New Mommy
About Me
- Tanya Mau-Halsall
- I am a 33 year old elementary school teacher, born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai'i. After living in Seattle and overseas in Thailand for a total of 12 years, I returned to Hawai'i to help take care of my father, who was diagnosed with ALS, a.k.a. Lou Gherig's Disease, in October 2004. After 2 1/2 years of watching his body slowly decline, my father earned his wings April 2007 and is no longer suffering. The past couple of years was spent sharing valuable time together and making more memories, as my father got to "walk" me down the aisle, though he was a couple months shy of seeing the birth of his first grandchild. And now, with new life, the journey continues with baby Chase, as I learn how to balance teaching, marriage, and being a mom. This online journal is a way for me to express myself, through my love of traveling, photography, and writing, while keeping in touch with family and friends.
Blog Archive
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- Myanmar's National Causes
- Myanmar
- I'm Back...Well, for a little bit anyway!
- Can we not just get to a market without getting we...
- After a truck ride back, we're all wet! (Don't for...
- Even though the sawngthiaw taxis (in red) have a r...
- At one point, I decided to jump out of the tuk tuk...
- Yeah, great idea...Ride in an OPEN tuk tuk in traf...
- This lady is prepared to get wet! Why didn't I thi...
- A popular iced tea vendor offers free water fill u...
- Our bamboo raft driver steers us safely through so...
- Gary tries his hand at steering the raft.
- Beer for sale! Hilltribe hats and bottle holders f...
- As we float by on bamboo rafts, we notice a family...
- A young Thai girl carefully drops her coins in eac...
- My mom drops coins in each bucket as blessings at ...
- "Alright, you got me!" Gary exclaims as these two ...
- A cute little boy in Northern Thai wear - denim sh...
- A young toddler wears a bucket on his head...Perha...
- The Songkran Festival umbrella beauty contest in C...
- A vendor sells buckets of jasmine water that you c...
- A woman blesses a Buddha at a temple.
- Elephant and Buddha floats go through the streets ...
- People buy colorful flags and stand them up in san...
- Ornate sand carvings at a local temple in Chiang Mai
- Some people sit high up on an ancient temple wall ...
- Colorful parade floats during the Songkran water f...
- People get buckets of water from the river and cro...
- Hundreds of people blessing Buddha on floats in a ...
- We got wet and soaked from the ride back to our gu...
- Spices, chili, and curry paste sold at a local mar...
- Gary tells the vendor how many of each vegetable w...
- Mom buys fish at the local morning fish market
- Tanya, Mom, Noi (our cooking instructor from her H...
- Mom and Gary making sticky rice and coconut sauce
- Ready to eat!
- The cooks get a little taste test during cooking
- Six dishes we made in a Thai cooking course: Fish ...
- A girl dances with a beautiful, colorful fan.
- A boy demonstrates sword dancing.
- A strange furry animal comes to join the tradition...
- The furry animal visits Gary (and wants some money...
- I try my hand at traditional Thai dancing, as I ge...
- Goodbye, Tik!!
- Finally, the truck is all packed up and ready to g...
- P'Nan, Tik, Aw, and Tanya, before Tik takes off wi...
- Aw, Tik, and Dang, sharing one of their last momen...
- Tik leaves her empty room at Bamrung Wittaya Schoo...
- Tik with her "pet" (spicy) som tum, and my "mai pe...
- Tik with P'Nan, a social studies teacher, on our w...
- Tik has a lot to pick up the night before she's mo...
- Tik stands on a bench in the dark with our HUGE po...
- Tik and Aw, on our way home walking down the alley.
- Bye, bye Pepsi shop! The owners closed up their h...
- Eating yellow mango and sticky rice with a scoop o...
- Looking through the screen window in the bedroom, ...
- Matt and Gai
- Gai, a primary teacher, comes to say goodbye, as s...
- Dinner at Soi Sawng (one of our Bamrung families o...
- Among teachers leaving this year is my dear friend...
- Tik washes her teddy bears off for the second half...
- Tanya and Christy pose outside our house we've bee...
- We forgot to take a picture of our entire suki mea...
- P'Aut blows out the candles in excitement as they ...
- P'Aut cuts her birthday cake.
- Voluptuous ice cream
- Another Thai Wedding
- The couple with family and attendants.
- P'Nice steals the bouquet away from Nok.
- P'Boom, a secretary at our school, poses in her be...
- The newlyweds, Ku Eh (our director and principal's...
- Jill, Keisha, Ku Eh, Wondee, Tanya, & Christy outs...
- Adorable Peem nods her head from left to right as ...
- Jun, one of our EP students, leads the attendants ...
- Prael is a little confused as to which way she's s...
- One flower girl doesn't make it all the way down t...
- Gotta love Big in suspenders!
- Summer School Cuties
- Kee and her older sister Ping Pong on their first ...
- Kip, a cute little second grader.
- Oil, the only older boy in our class, works with m...
- Beam, one of my 2nd grade students at summer school.
- Form, the most vocal one in the class, smiles for ...
- Things On My Mind Lately
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