I enjoyed the book Touch the Dragon due to Karen's description of the landscape and culture. When I started reading the book, I was very eager to find out about Karen's surroundings, because for me, it is that element of a book that allows me to connect with the main character and imagine myself in the story. Karen's descriptions like on page 70, when she is talking about men with machine guns get on the bus as she is heading to Phuket. This reminded me of the time when I lived in Tobago and because they where having problems in Trinidad with a thing called the Koo (political thing) everybody had to be in there houses by 6:00pm if not there wore police and military men out with guns and bats. Trinidad and Tobago are two countries together so if one country is having problems the other one has to follow even i

Overall, I think it was a very good book, and suitable for all ages. Touch the Dragon involved people experiencing and learning about new and nifty things-something I think more people should do. I found that also incorporated in the book was travel, nature, geography, medicine, human interaction, behaviour, language, and discovery-most of which are the basic ideas in most books. Therefore, I ended up learning much more to Karen and the country through this book. In addition, I think it would be a great book for exchange program co-ordinators and the exchange people them self. It would give them a sense of what other exchange people experienced, perhaps even preparing them for there to come adventure. Another place that would appreciate this book would be travel agencies, so they could promote their programs and to convince people of the benefits of exploration and travel, making more people want to have a sense of adventure in there lives. "When she sees me, she smiles and says in Thai, "Do you want to go know?" I dream we walk down the stairs together and out to the morning assembly. A thousand black-haired children are singing in the fields of Nareerat.

Karen's descriptions and reactions to Thailand's many varieties of "critters" were well done, especially those involving insects and lizards. Karen's trip to the market is one of my favourites. It is when a pineapple seller explained to her how to cook a grey-green lizard called a dug-oo-wat, which was larger than an iguana. Another experience that she encountered w

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Approximate Word count = 1040
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)