Today we had another nice early start and went over to a Thai primary school. Our volunteer task today was to paint one of the outside walls of the school - first with a coat of white paint and then two coats of pink paint. We all got splattered with paint as well. After we had finished, some of the guys started playing a game of football with some of the Thai children as it was their lunch break when we finished. A few of the children came up to me and some of o...

It feels so good just to be able to lie on a beach and relax especially after the long journey we had to get here. So we left Bangkok around 9pm last night and sat on a coach that drove us down to the pier. We got there around half 5 this morning (managed to get a few hours sleep). Our ferry didn't arrived until 7am so while we were waiting there were some deckchairs we could sit in by the beach and just watch the morning sunrise which was pretty. We then got on ...

Today we had to be up nice and early (okay 8am so it wasn't too early :P) ready to build a dam in the Thai forestry area. As some of the group had gone out the night before they didn't make it so there was about 9 of us but we still managed to finish early, we were just that good :P When we got there, the stream was at the bottom of a steep slope but at the top of the slope was about 10 bags of cement (100kg each!) and two tubs that needed to be carried down to t...

Today was really fun. We had rented bikes and rode around Ayutthaya stopping at three temples to look around. Considering I haven't ridden a bike for about 6 years now and we didn't have helmets and were riding on main roads between cars at times, I managed okay and didn't fall off. The temples were really old and rural which was interesting seeing a bit of Thailand history. At one temple we had a pot of sticks, that had numbers on, and you had to shake the pot u...

So today we had to be out of the room by quarter to 8 ... In the morning .... After a night out .... Although Thailand clubs aren't as good as the ones in Milton Keynes - I'm missing them already! We have then been sat on a coach since 8 this morning and we didn't get to our hotel until quarter to 7 in the evening -.- we did stop at KFC for lunch though which was good :) so far the hotel isn't that great ... The wifi doesn't work very well and we've already seen ...