Monday 6th April. Into my last week now.. I'm glad I chose to be here for four weeks, it is the ideal length of time, I think. Had a nice meal at a restaurant in the village for Sabine's last night.. the spiciest I have managed to obtain scince being in Thailand, some others couldn't handle it but I wanted it hotter! Food at the centre is frustratingly mild, so I add chili flakes to everything! In those four weeks, I have only left the immediate area once, str...

Sunday 29th March Life continues as usual at the wildlife centre.. I am now half way through my time here! Everyone told me that it would fly by and it has, in a way. Have also been feeling a bit homesick the last week, though.. quite a lot of volunteers have left this week/are leaving this weekend (end of the month), which makes me think about home and how long it will be til I am back there. Have decided that two years may be an excessive length of time for m...

Sunday 22nd March Sunday is not necessarily a day of rest, here! The animals know no difference from other days and still need to be fed, cleaned, and enriched! Days off are one-a-week and our choice, first come first served. I had Saturday off this week. After my first two days on Primates, Weds and Friday I was once again on Bears, which was great because I love them! After a month and a half of solid flip-flop wearing, I reluctantly donned my hiking boots an...

17th March, Wednesday I was picked up in Bangkok Sunday morning and driven for three hours down into the South, to Phetchaburi, where the Wildlife Friends of Thailand Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation centre is, near to Thayang, Hua-Hin and Cha-Am towns. Another girl, Chloe, was picked up at the same time as me, to be taken to do the elephant project. We arrived at 1pm, met and shown to our rooms, I share with two others, in a fairly basic but clean room (no...

We left from Koh Samet on Monday for the full moon party... a mission in itself, as 8/9 members of our group going had been out the night before, half were regularly throwing up, two had lost their bags/wallets/phones/cameras, one had been spiked and kept falling over and all was general shambles. 8 of us made it to the speedboat though, to travel to the mainland, then bumpy minibus to pattaya u-tapao airport. The flight was only an hour, but we got complimentar...