This weekend we decided origionally to go to Chiang Doe. We got on a bus and checked into our very stange hostel..... the women was really very very odd and then went up to the caves!! They were absolutley huge but again very strange... the whole place had a rather eerie atmosphere and we decided there wasn't much to do so we got half our money back after a pretend phone call and flaged down a bus to chiang mai where some of the other AV's were already!! Sarah ma...

This week began as a week of teaching! On monday we taught our first two lessons as usual and then joined in with some thai dance in preperation for fridays event. We wore the long finernails and bashed some bamboo sticks together! In the evening there was a staff v hill tribe football match!! mae salak won!! Tuesday we taught again and even taught our first sports lesson to the 6's where we played dodgeball very successfully!! actually taught the 2's for the fi...

This week began with teaching but then rather quickly turned into chinese new year...!! We taught on the Monday and Tuesday morning introducing some classics like the clothes race (which resulted in Brian turning up when two kids dressed in skirts(sexy!!) were chasing fran around the field!!) But when Tuesday afternoon arrived the week of teaching ended. We headed off to Fang, picking up Sophia and Sarah on the way... and did some marketing followed by cake and ...

This weekend we went to Chiang Mai!! After all getting ready in our room on friday we were nicely dressed in our hippy/bright coloured clothes to get our song taew!! we then got a mini bus from the resort to the city!! we had a great time on the bus with ballons, music, buiscuits and mars bars from fang!! Kew came with us as our little tour guide!! We arrived and discovered we were sleeping in a hugo dorm of 8 which was great fun!! we went out to dinner in a rest...

This week has been a week of teaching in our school however we have had many afternoons/mornings off for various reasons!! Monday was as normal until we decided to go for a walk and then came back to find our teachers having a little picnic in the computer room consisting of fish and frogs!! yum!! but we both tried the frogs which were actually ok/ tasted of duck!! we also had our first experience of spy!! Tuesday afternoon we were taken rice farming which was ...