Handling the pandemic

Postbox letter from Graham

I have been teaching English in Thailand since 1994 and I have now been out of work for four months due to the pandemic.

Little hope for a teacher in lockdown

Postbox letter from Jasmine

I don’t want to go home but if I have to because of the lack of work, it will be the ultimate defeat and one I will not cope at all well with.

Times have changed

Postbox letter from Mark

In my two decades of living in Thailand, I have experienced some occasional prejudice, but no openly hostile racism.

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