What age do you think you will live to?

Some guys who stayed with me last year shot this video at my school. And some people still wonder why I love it here.

http://www.lonelyplanet.tv/Clip.aspx?key=0339922A4EC0CA8E

 

!!!!!!! Those children have sunshine in their eyes! Oh my goodness!! I want to be their mother haha By the way, is that you?

 

These kids give me a reason to get up every morning, hangover or not, tired or not, annoyed or not. My job is definitely one of the best things in my life right now.

By the way, yeah, that's me. The hair is gone now though.

 

You are amazing. What do you teach them? I would love to teach children.

 

I teach English and Maths. It's great, I teach from grade 3 to 9 so I get all the innocence of kids and some of the fun of teenagers. I also teach a little Geography and life skills, but they teach me more about myself than I could ever give them. It is the most rewarding job with really the most amazing kids EVER..

 

I would want to adopt from there too. I want to adopt children.

 

I feel like I've adopted about 100 of the little buggers already. I can't say enough for the people here. I mean, you can come travelling, see all the beaches, girly bars and ping-pong shows you like, but when you get out in the sticks and meet the real Thailand, it's a lot different than some 'travellers' would lead you to believe.

 

ping pong shows eh

I am most definitely not interested in touristy attractions a ce moment dans ma vie

 

Oui, mais pour les autres, Thailandie est comme-ci.

 

Oui bien sur.

 

How'd you fall into that Red? What kinda certifications did you have?

That sounds like a bloody wonderful life. I can think that would be a great thing for me to do in Thailand to help out, aside from my ambitions.

 

Oh, and I have no idea. I'm in good health now. And with medicine and the quality of life improving, if I can be a rocking 90 year old man, then it's gonna happen.

 

Well, that's exactly it... I fell into it. I have a degree in Computers which I've never used but if you are a native speaker with a degree, it's pretty easy to pick up work over here.

I'm actually a volunteer. I didn't come with any organisation or anything, I just got offered a place at a local school and took it. I get around 100$US a month which is enough to live simply. And I don't care too much for money. I have been offered jobs at university and nice high schools paying around 1000$ a month here...which would put me in the "able to do whatever the fuck I want" wage bracket.

There's a good site woth a lot of info and positions available in Thailand called www.ajarn.com . You should check it out.

 

Redyelruc,

I think what your doing is great! The video really captured that. How safe would you say Thailand is for a lone traveller? I've heard some horror stories..

Is there anything I should avoid if visiting? I really don't want to be murdered over there

 

well i know i'm going to live to at least the age i am now, which is way past the ages i spent most of my younger days being paranoid i'd get stuck in some sort of a time loop.

my dad didn't last much past where i am now but my mom is 90 and still going strong. so if i so much as split the difference i'll make to at least 75. i'm overweight, not THAT overweight, but i can still feel it in my heart, so that's kind of a big if.

75 will let me see the year 2019, which i think i'd like to. maybe the u.s. will wake up and stop bashing everything that doesn't kiss the ass of its own economic and idiological fanatacism by then. that's one of the things i'd like to live to see.

i'd like to live to be arround when a few other things that almost certainly will, happen. but i'll settle for people just getting serious about demanding real alternatives to being coerced into indenturing themselves to an automobile, which the price of motorfuels will eventually force them to. hopefully that won't take longer then i have left to live.

that and an end to this idiological prejudice that amounts to fighting over the arraingement of deck chairs on the titanic.

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themnax, do you feel a bit frightened when you think about getting older...and your maximum year you will see?

 

i don't know if there's a maximum i COULD, although i think the present human life form is probably limited to about 150, even with heroic maintainence and cost no object. which for me of course, cost is a VERY major obstical.

yah there are just certain things i'd like to live long enough to see happen, or how they turn out. that's what keeps me going. curiousity to explore through time as well as space.

i refuse to put a "maximum year" on it. i'm still in good enough health that every year is another 365 days and chainge to explore.

so i'm not sure i can even count on another ten, but at the same time i could have another 20 or even more, so i refuse to put a hex on it by making that kind of assumptions.

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Well cool thoughts

 

Most my family has lived to a very old age. My grandma is 95 and going strong!

 

im livin to 90, maybe even 92 can you beleive that?