This is the view outside my classroom window during a daily downpour. One sunny day I looked out on this scene to see a young Thai man seated high in the palm tree with a rifle. He and I were on eye-level and I waved cautiously, fearful he was a hired by my students to end the tedious practice of homework. The man waved back cheerfully and resumed studying the small pond at the base of the tree. Not the hired assasin I feared, he was just shooting fish.