Travel
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Return to Yasothon
All of my 2003-2004 Baha’i youth year of service was to be in Macau, China but visa problems eventually led the government of that city to kick me out. While on exile in mainland China I made arrangements to continue volunteering with the Thai Baha’i community. I was sent to a small town in the…
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What exactly it was that I was doing in Thailand (again) + Chiang Mai photos posted
THEN / NOW While I was in the geopolitical neighborhood this year I had the chance to offer a month of service with the Baha’i community of Thailand, one of the sites of my 2003-2004 youth year of service. The Thai Baha’i community is a young one compared to many other countries, but many of…
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Thakham village photos posted
Click here to see a handful of shots from my visit to Thakham village near Chiang Mai, Thailand. It features pictures of the village’s youngsters, its oldsters and nothing in between.
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Songkran video + Bangkok photos posted
Posted in this new set of photos are photos from Bangkok are images of Bangkok, some of its contents and several from this year’s Songkran festival. Songkran takes place over about four days every April to celebrate Thai new year, and is the most awesome holiday in the world. Below is a short video I…
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An Old Woman Woman Who Swallowed a Fly-type situation
There was a Canadian boy who played with dye, He didn’t take off his glasses first – I don’t know why, perhaps he’ll die. – There was a Canadian boy who soaked his glasses his bleach, To remove color from the parts his toothbrush couldn’t reach, He soaked them in bleach to remove the dye,…
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Ko Samet Pictures Posted
While I may technically be back in Canada now, and did not have the chance to post any content for the past few weeks, don’t think for a second that us here at the Life and Works will not be milking the past few weeks over the next several weeks for content. Having served in…
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The End of an Internship
My internship is over and I have just posted a new set of pictures from the debriefing in Delhi that reunited six of the seven interns sent to India by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. The set includes some from the Canadian High Commissioner to India’s crib, a sit-in by Bhopal disaster survivors, multiple draggings of…
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My ridiculous 2004 fasting article
The Baha’i world is now on day twelve of the nineteen day fast. The one nineteenth of the year when we abstain from food and liquids while the sun is up. The other eighteen nineteenths are known to me as my love affair with lunch, arguably one of the three most important meals of the…
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Bangalore Photos: A Photographic Retrospective in Photos of Bangalore
Don’t let the title of this post and your gullibility to anything written in a blog fool you, Bangalore still exists, arguably more now than ever before. But as I am leaving the area soon, I’m not planning on going back to that city in a long time so: Bangalore, you are dead to me now. Presented…
Samuel Benoit 