Sawasdee Kahp… greetings from Thailand.    For those of you who don’t know me or my family, I am a former resident of Charlestown who has just moved to the other side of the world. Back in 2000, at the age of 23, having just finished college and working as a substitute teacher at teacher at Charlestown High, I saved up a couple thousand dollars which enabled me to backpack through Southeast Asia for a few months.    I travelled through Thailand and Laos before settling in Chiang Mai, Thailand where I took a job as an English teacher. I wanted to earn some money and hang out in this cool city…