bonjour!! having an awesome thime in chang mai. done a few cultural things is uppose. went to doi suthep on sunday which was interesting. it was trully beautiful and is number one on the things to do in thailand so i can tick that. its on the top of a mountain so you can see all of chang mai plus the othere mountains in the distance. we got bblessed by a monk aswell. however, a 20 minute drive up a long, very windy road is not so goodd when suffering from a h...

This time, the photo actually matches where i am. we were even in the night market last night. so, a few things have happened. we got taken to a rubber tree farm to help fertilise the trees. we basically just walked up and down in between the rows scattering little pellet things which was as fun as it can be. we also met trevor the toad there. the slightly camp lady boy we have made freinds with screamed when he saw it. he also tried to throw the pellets out of ...

1 Month Down well, we have now officially been in thailand for 1 month, or 30 days. its been a good 30 days i think upon reflexion. after getting through living in our host families house, we have now settled into a kind of routine although the teaching is yet to begin. we head to chang mai next friday which should be very exciting. over the last few days we have been quite biuys. the primary school held a kind of welcoming ceremony for us where we were prese...

Thai Life It occured to me that i have really just been describing what i have been doing on a daily basis and not about what thai culture is like. i will start with school. the kids come from villages all around, some a good 4o mins away. many of them either bring their scooters or get what i suppose could be called the school bus. it is basically a truck with seats at the sides facing each other. many of the boys sit on top of the bus but i am yet to see any g...

My first lesson. we taught our first lesson in the primary school yesterday (friday). we did fruit. appropiate seeing that my first lesson practice on coll. except this time with thai fruits. we had drawn pictures of 9 fruit, and if anyone know my artistic tallents, it was incredibl the kids actually recognised what i had draw. we basicall just read them out and got the kids to repeat. then we played slap the board. the kids loved this. they got really really in...