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Fresh Batch: Sticky Rice Writers’ Introductions

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 19/05/2023 • ( 3 Comments )

We’re Back!: Letter from the Editor

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 01/05/2023 • ( 3 Comments )

On the “Great Peace Corps Evacuation of 2020” (Named by Khun Michelle)

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 04/05/2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Heartbreak

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 17/04/2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Still There

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 13/04/2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Letters to the People I had to Leave

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 08/04/2020 • ( Leave a comment )

On Evacuation: A Letter from the Editors

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 23/03/2020 • ( 1 Comment )

“As you know, we recently evacuated Volunteers from China and Mongolia due to the COVID-19 outbreak and related travel constraints and school closings. Further evacuations are now under way at several posts. […]

Mae Dang

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 16/03/2020 • ( Leave a comment )

I did not know it at the time, but over the next weeks and months, this smile and the lovely woman who bears it would make this place my home.

How To Be Alone Together

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 13/03/2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Katie Basset, 131 YinD I had never lived alone before Peace Corps. In fact, I never had my own room until I was 19. When I was young, I craved solitude, little […]

Here

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 11/03/2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Sierra Drummond, TESS 131 I’ve recently enjoyed the comfort of other noise in my home Not directed at me but through me, an inescapable reminder of company, that I’m not alone I […]

International Women’s Day Photo Competition

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 09/03/2020 • ( 1 Comment )

A Poem by women To be a woman is to have superpowers. To create life. To be soft and strong. To be a woman is to be resilient. To have tenacity. To […]

Bees?!

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 06/03/2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Emily Maginnis, TESS 131  Yes, you read correctly. No, Paw Aw, they were not flies. No, host mother, they were not over sized moths will a strangely organized system of government. I […]

Torcon Drive

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 04/03/2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Natalie Heinitz, 131 YinD It’s so easy to get lost in nostalgia when you’re in an unfamiliar place.  Playing with dirt reminds me of crisp autumn nights at the little league fields, […]

Black History Month: PCV Reflections

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 02/03/2020 • ( Leave a comment )

As we reflect on the end of this year’s Black History Month, we would like to highlight some of the experiences of our Black Peace Corps Volunteers. The following are brief snap-shots […]

Healthy Living: A Meditation on Self-Control

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 28/02/2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Ian Tramm, 131 YinD So. Food. It’s the best. Obviously. Everyone loves a good meal. You know what’s not nearly as good as food though? Discipline. Self-control. Saying no to dessert. Much […]

Tatted in Thailand: COS Tattoos

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 26/02/2020 • ( Leave a comment )

During Group 130’s Reconnect Conference in 2018 many of us decided on getting tattoos. Prior to that week I had also heard of volunteers from Group 129 who had gotten tattooed during […]

Group 130 Yearbook: We Loved and We Learned

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 24/02/2020 • ( Leave a comment )

As their service comes to a close, Peace Corps Thailand volunteers from Group 130 reflect and answer the question, “What’s one thing you loved and one thing learned during service?” Loved and […]

Thank you, Group 130!

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 19/02/2020 • ( Leave a comment )

As the 27-month service of Group 130 comes to an end, we – Group 131 – have found ourselves reflecting on all that you have done to teach us, encourage us, and […]

My Hardest Goodbye

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 17/02/2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Yaneth “Janet” Peña, 130 YinD I once asked a friend if she felt her Peace Corps service had gone by quickly. She said: “the days are long but the months fly by.” […]

The Quote Wall

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 14/02/2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Alexis Baker, 130 YinD  My senior year of college, my apartment had an infamous wall, the quote wall. The quote wall was filled with ridiculous conversations that had occurred within my friend […]

Snapshots of a Day

By Peace Corps Thailand Magazine on 12/02/2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Bianca Henao, 131 TESS   Giggles, screams and K-Pop dance moves. Holes in their socks, cute little shoes.   Sweat trickles down their brows and smiling faces.  This is really my home? […]

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A lot has been written about the COVID-induced evacuations of volunteers in the spring of 2020. A little more than three years later, the need for an update on how COVID has affected training, service and the Thai communities we serve is appropriate and necessary. -Bradford Reszel TESS 134
The staff of Sticky Rice would like to wish you a happy first day of Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🌻🌞💕 We're celebrating today, but sending love and appreciation to our fellow volunteers, RPCVs, Thai students and counterparts, Peace Corps Thailand staff and teachers, and all of our loved ones back home of all identities EVERY day!
I was unsure where to start, so I told him I wished I had more eyes and ears with which to see and hear more, and therefore understand more of what I was experiencing. @cloeonpointe
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The Adventures of Khao & Soy // by: Pakou Khang

Serving in the south be like...
Serving in the south be like…
Khao and Soy made it through the term unscathed... Did you?
Khao and Soy made it through the term unscathed… Did you?
Khao is terribly distracted about this upcoming bpit-term... #arewethereyet?
Khao is terribly distracted about this upcoming bpit-term… #arewethereyet?
Khao&Soy_August
Khao & Soy_July
Khao and Soy on their last baht and can't decide if they want to live for the moment or live for the month. Decisions, decisions.
Khao and Soy on their last baht and can’t decide if they want to live for the moment or live for the month. Decisions, decisions.
Khao and Soy have mixed feelings about heading back to school.
Khao and Soy have mixed feelings about heading back to school.
Khao and Soy are ready for their trip.... did they remember everything?
Khao and Soy are ready for their trip…. did they remember everything?
How Khao and Soy deal with the summer heat
How Khao and Soy deal with the summer heat
Khao and Soy make bike safety fashionable
Khao and Soy make bike safety fashionable
Meet Sticky Rice's new mascot, Khao, and his trusty sidekick, Soy.
Meet Sticky Rice’s new mascot, Khao, and his trusty sidekick, Soy.

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