So water festival break is almost over and it's back to work for the last three weeks now, time is flying by! Bagan was really nice, a quaint little area, just getting there was half the fun of the trip! Our boat journey took 18 hours, we left Mandalay at 5:30am and arrived around midnight! The slow boat was crammed full: a few foreigners, loads of locals, bags of rice, watermelons and sheet metal among other things! There was an area with plastic chairs at one ...

Life in Burma is a lot different to Thailand, it's like stepping back into the 1950s! People cycling around on bicycles, wearing traditional clothes, driving trishaws and horse drawn carts, it reminds me a little of Africa with all the huts and markets. That's one side of it; and then there's the rich families who attend schools like ours, drive jeeps, pay huge tuition fees, eat at fancy western cafes, own iPods, iPads etc! There's a class divide like nothing I'v...

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