hello its Joanne , life has been pretty normal at work , i am still loving it and feel i could stay for a few more months , but i have to come home sometime . At work we got to take some of our kids to the cinema to see a cute elephant film in thai , which they loved . I mannaged to perswade Martime my teacher to let me take Ama ha a young completly normal girl pretty much who i just play with and hug if she is around shes just like my little sister , bless s...

Hello! I have finally recovered from one of the best weekends ever- The Full Moon Party on Hat Rin beach in Ko pang nan. It is a bit infamous for drugs and stuff but it was completely fine and i din't get any sleep from thursday night until the boat home on sunday night (well ok maybe i got a half hour nap on the beach) There was thousands of people there all having a good time, lots of neon body paint and dancing in the sea was of course involved. The island i...

hello this is Joanne . I have just come home after a 10 day break because of bank hollidays here and a crazy staff camp we had to go on . For a few days at the camp i sle[pt in a room with 30 thi ladies , ate rice 3 times a day not good and fish for breakfast . We played weird humilating games and we did a thi dancing performace and the 5 of the boys bressed up as lady boys and danced. It wass so bizzar didnt understand most of it because many in thi . My p...

I am in Bankok again!!!!!!!!!!!must be like my 7th time or something stupid. Unfortunately the company i am with stuffed up and our volunteer placement in Chang Mai wasn't suitable. The children were lovely but there just wasn't anything for us to do!The place was already too well set up! Chang Mai was lovely-gorgeous shopping which is always exciting, i went on a trip riding elephants, trekking, hill tribing and bamboo rafting with some very drunk guides-anoth...

i am sorry for being rude and not writting this for ages life at the moment is just brilliant i always seem to be doing something . Its Joanne writting by the way i hope the start of uni and work after easter was lovely . Well i am just going to try and describe some of work . I work in the girls home with 3 thi and Meg , Holly and Sarah . Mondays and wed we work on the CP wards were the kids cant really move or sit up and majority are unable to talk . At ...