On Saturday we got picked up by the song taew (after finishing our packing and saying our goodbyes......) to go to the resort before heading to koa toa!! we had a nice meal for susies last night and then watched a film before our early start in the morning!! We said goodbye which was really sad!! The bus to bangkok left at half 6 and was a very long 15 hour journey!! on arrival it took us ages to all get taxis to the hotel!! in the morning we then got our next b...

This week was our last week at mae salak which was so sad!! on monday the students had exams so while susie went to chiang mai hospital to get her stomach looked at again i supervised some exams and got the english ones ready for tuesday!! the singapour students also arrived to start the building of the homestay so i got a lift on the song taew with them for allys leaving dinner!! on tuesday we marked and did the exams which was very amusing as some of the child...

On Monday we taught the 5's and 6's doing a re-cap lesson in preperation for the end of year exams next week which we found out we had to write all of!! In the evening Kru Ob cooked us spaghetti which was delicious!! On Tuesday we thought we had a lie in as the 6's had national exams however we were surprised to be told we were covering a lesson for the 3's...... which came as a shock!! In the evening Simon and Ben came over for Pad Thai which was much better th...

After a very long bum-numbing journey we reached chiang mai and had a nice evening before our saturdays adventure. We organised a day trip to go elephant riding and bamboo riding.... our guide was quite the character!! We arrived at the camp and watched an elephant show before our hour and a half trek through the jungle on the back of an elephant!! after our ride we went bamboo rafting down the river which was very relaxing and were then taken by ox cart to our b...

On Monday after having a massive lunch with all the teachers from Banong School we were asked to teach Prathom 1 as they had been requesting us!! We taught them some animals, they were a very excitable but very cute class and loved our stickers!In the evening we attempted to cook rice balls which were very tasty.. and then played the drums with Kru Ob and did gymnastics with the kids.. as there were lots of people at school getting prepared for scout camp. One of...