Loy Kratong On Tuesday night Won took us to a village down the road where they had a Ladyboy Contest on. It was insane! You couldn't tell that they weren't women! It started with 12 contestants, one from each of the surrounding villages. There were two rounds. The first round they cat walked the stage and introduced themselves. In the second round they all had to do performances. Most of them did dances; one did MuayThai (thai boxing). Their high heels were n...

Discovery College On Wednesday we had Discovery College from Hong Kong come to Sanpakha school to paint a mural. They did one last year of ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations). It is the same idea as the EU only in Asia and will be made up of Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines, Singapore and Cambodia. This year they painted lotus' and dragonflies on a wall and 'welcome' in English and Thai on another. They were ...

Monday 19th November - Sunday 25th November This week went pretty smoothly. All our lessons went to plan although some of the kids have started being really cheeky with us! They hide under the tables and play "boxing" with each other (really their just fighting) but with our language barrier we cant tell them off and they can't tell us what happened. With year 1 on Monday though none of them were listening to us so their teacher made five of them huddle round ...

Saturday and Sunday On Saturday, we went over to Ploy's (our neighbor) and she taught us how to make sticky rice with coconut: 1. Fry the coconut with brown sugar and a shallot 2. Knead the sticky rice flour with water 3. Prepare the banana leaves and put oil on them 4. Encase the coconut mixture in the sticky rice dough 5. Fold the banana leaf around it 6. Steam for 30 minutes While we were waiting for them to cook the little girl that was helping us make the...

Friday - SCHOOL TRIP Today was a school trip for years 4, 5 and 6. However, because all the teachers needed to go (more like wanted to go), even the nursery teachers - the rest of the school was closed. They day started when we all had to meet at 5:30am - way too early and pitch black! Nevertheless, the kids had been at school since 4:45, all of them way too excited! The school had booked a "Chiang Mai - Tha Ton" bus but we were going in the opposite direction...