Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and enjoying the sunshine!From what I've heard it sounds like I'm missing a fabulous summer! Well it has been almost 2 months since my last blog and so much has happened since than. I arrived in New Zealand a week ago and it is so cold!It is a refreshing change after being in the heat for the last 4 months and having to deal with mosquitos! Laos I'm casting my mind back to Laos...the highlights for me were spending 2 da...

Sabai Dee (Hello in Lao) everyone! I am currently in Laos and think it's time I updated you on my travels so far...I arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal from Delhi not feeling very well at all, luckily after a few days in bed I was back to my normal self again, I think it was something I had eaten in Delhi! Anyway I spent my first week sightseeing around the Kathmandu Valley with 3 other volunteers (2 of them I'd already met in India). We stayed with local families duri...

Nameste everyone, Its me again, well what can I say, it has been 5 weeks since my last blog, I have been so busy volunteering and visiting new places that time has just flown by. I started teaching English in a local school in Bedla (a village just outside Udaipur), I had a class of 10 who were 4th and 5th grade students with very basic knowledge of English. A typical day for me would be waking up to see if we had any hot water that day, having breakfast prepa...

Hello everyone, I thought it was time to write my first blog to fill you in on what I have been doing in my first week in India. Well what can I say, it has been very hectic and I have so many things to tell you already. In my first few days in Delhi, I met up with the other volunteers and we went sightseeing, visiting the Lotus Temple, India Gate, the Humayan Tomb and Kutub Minar, it was a very busy day and in the evening we caught an overnight train to Jodhpu...