U.S. Embassy Office of Public Affairs

As mentioned in a previous post, we began our Bangkok experiences with a briefing at the U.S. Embassy. We wish to acknowledge a very special person there, Mrs.  Panisara "Nina" Logsdon, who works in the Public Affairs office. She arranged our orientation program for us which included a security briefing, an overview of U.S. educational, exchange, and language programs which our students may be interested in pursuing in the near future, and arranged for us to meet and hear a presentation from the Thailand TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) President. She provided a variety of English language teaching materials for our group. Nina also proved to be helpful to us throughout our trip. 

The coolest thing about Nina is she is a proud graduate of UTSA, having earned her Masters Degree from the College of Education and Human Development several years ago! We felt proud to meet one of our own alumni doing great work in this part of the world.