My chocka-block weekend in Kanchanaburi was the week before last now, but this it the first chance I've had to actually sit down (in an internet cafe with huge squishy first class style aeroplane seats AND 60p smoothies!) and write about it. The last ten days or so have been pretty hectic as am covering lots of extra classes for an absent teacher; I do have a job to do in between my weekendly jaunts don't forget! So my weekend in Kanchanaburi was pretty last min...

The rest of orientation in Bangkok was superb. On the Weds evening we met our co-ordinators at the schools we'll be teaching at, mine is Kru Oh and she's lovely. We all had a nice dinner together, accompanied by gorgeous children in full-Thai regalia doing traditional acting and dancing which was so good. That night a few of us enjoyed a couple of Singha beers (less than a quid!!!) up on the roof. Thursday morning we travelled about 2.5 hours to Kanchanburi, whe...