[Ijkavylo]

Thanks for sharing your story. I don't know if you realize it, but writing your thoughts like this helps the people that are following in your footsteps. In Thailand, you will get stared at no matter what your skin colour. If you are different, they will stare. Other Asian countries are like this. Some are worse. It is something you will have to get used to. But, as more Westerners come to Thailand, the situation will gradually get better. Theother day I took two new volunteer teachers out to a local popular restaurant. As they had fair hair and one of them was taller than the average Thai person, I saw that literally everyone was staring. They were just curious. It must have been really hard for you being in a "small' town with no support. The Thai people do have a thing about darker skin colour, but I am sure once they had a chance to know the real you everything would have calmed down in time. It sounds like you had already started to experience that with the people you had come into close contact with. Even though you may have been there only a short time, you have provided some important groundwork for other people who might later go to that same school.