Can a week change your life?If that week, or 10 days for me, was spent in Mae Sot, then it absolutely can. I last wrote about my first day at school. learning to drive a motorbike and just getting chucked into a routine that was not mine.In the last few days I have been far too everything to write:  too busy, too amazed, too happy, too sad, too tired and too overwhelmed to do much more than just take it in to process at another time.10 days in Mae Sot include...

I made it to my first day of school intact. The drive, my first on a motorcycle as driver, went through Mae Sot, out onto the freeway then off into the country side. The area we are in is beautiful in a very gentle way. Rolling mountains meet sugar cane and rice paddies, both just in the tilling stage as the heat of summer is at its peak and the rains are expected any day now. It really is stiflingly hot. Most days the heat feels like a full force furnace wh...

Yet another long and winding road. Through the northern Thai mountains from Chiang Mai to Mae Sot - finally travelling in the right direction. At the bus station I heard the young girl in front of me ask about a ticket to Mae Sot. Seems we would have to wait a few hours to get the direct bus so I told her I too wanted to go to Mae Sot and she, being Thai, was able to figure out another way to get there from here.   It was to involve a big bus and then a tran...

What a wild few hours in Mae Sot!!!! No such thing as a learning curve here, just a flare of hope shot into the sky and either you grab it and go or you just don't go so.....grab I did.Arrived in Mae Sot on Sunday late - it was just getting dusk as I found Laura and Sharon and reviewed the new digs. No time to catch up on where we all had been the last month ( me, 4 more countries, in one month - I can't even believe it), them, having slowly moved on fr...