Well, here I am in Chiang Mai, sitting outside my hostel with a jumper on and a cup of cofee as the others play cards wrapped up in blankets! Its frrreeeeeeeezing here and pouring with rain! That however will not stop me from going to the elephant sanctuary tomorrow and playing in the stream with the heffelumps! Jumped on an overnight bus with fellow intern Eimear (based in Kalasin) on saturday night. An eleven hour journey from the north east for just 500 bah...

Well, here I am in Chiang Mai, sitting outside my hostel with a jumper on and a cup of cofee as the others play cards wrapped up in blankets! Its frrreeeeeeeezing here and pouring with rain! That however will not stop me from going to the elephant sanctuary tomorrow and playing in the stream with the heffelumps! Jumped on an overnight bus with fellow intern Eimear (based in Kalasin) on saturday night. An eleven hour journey from the north east for just 500 bah...

Quickly for those of you wondering, the Japan earthquake/tsunami will not be hitting Thailand - the Tsunami warning cleared Thailand almost straight away, still I'm sure it will bring back some memories for the people who live in this beautiful country. I think most of us interns are very aware that Japan has a huge number of TEFL teachers over there and it could easily have been happening to us so our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who's been effected! ...

Hello!!!!!!! Having a very productive morning here at school, my first lesson isnt till 10.30 so thought id send a little update on this thing! things have been pretty quiet since my last blog. Ive been spending my weekends relaxing and writing a persoanl statement for the old PGCE applictation. Dont think ive ever spent so much time alone, but its been kinda nice, in some ways just what I needed, i'm over it now though! Lots of thinking and reflection and all...

Hello there, At school and once again all the children have run away (well my year have gone to military camp) so I'm not teaching all day. I guess I should cover new years quickly, headed to bangkok, stayed in a hostel on the ks road about 10 of us in all. spent the day mooching round the market and eating western food and napping in recovery from the overnight journey. We were pretty lucky, after arriving at 5 am we managed to find a hostel that would let us ...