Cruising on the final vestiges of jetlag that have brought me into the twilight hours, I’ve finally added my photos to Flickr after some editing. I would have loved to share these in real time but as Canon has yet to design a camera with internet access (it’d be perfect!), hopefully you won’t mind the [...]
Read More...Sitting in the airport I am now reminiscing our trip to Thailand. Looking at some of the pictures on my camera and the blog are bringing found memories and many emotions. I want to take this time to thank everyone who supported this trip from Informa, all my colleagues at Citeline and the rest of [...]
Read More...Well it’s our last day and we’ve arrived at Bangkok so we’re nearer to the airport for our Saturday flight midday and arrive home in England about 7.15pm ish I can honestly say we’ve all worked our socks off, they’ve run me ragged up and down hills through mud, water and trees but i’ve loved [...]
Read More...We have now finished working with the orphanages. On our lastday at the Nun’s orphanage we planted watermelon, cucumber and egg plant. Afterwards, a group of us decided to rent out a cab and head over to the Dream House orphanage to see the children one last time. While there we dropped off some bottles [...]
Read More...This morning we said a very fond farewell to our adopted home in Thailand. After two weeks of volunteering and exploring our little city, we’ve had a ton of friends, Thai and non-Thai, old and young, to say goodbye to over the past few days. We finished our work at the nun’s school, having planted [...]
Read More...After a great week at Dreamhouse we kicked off the weekend in an amazing way – elephant trekking through the jungle. I’ve got to give it to Thailand, they have some amazing animals. Elephants are sacred here as they believe that one of Buddha’s 9 lives is spent as an elephant.. they’re great, absolutely massive [...]
Read More...Believe it or not, yesterday this piece of ground was a jungle. It’s been hard work clearing it but quite satisfying. Special shout out of the day goes to Amy, who put her Thai kickboxing aggression to good use whilst chopping a massive and very stubborn piece of bamboo. I’m not planning to mess with [...]
Read More...We have now been working in the gardens at the nun’s orphanage for two days and the temperature seems to continue to rise. We have created a better drainage system for the chilli pepper plants that have been planted. Some of the team members gave them a much needed watering after the heat of the [...]
Read More...Team Thailand were working out in the blazing sunshine again today clearing away the jungle, unearthing ant and termite nests and hacking down some very – very – stubborn bamboo roots. We’re turning the area into farm land to help feed the displaced Burmese tribe people and children who come to the Buddhist Nun’s school [...]
Read More...Day 2 at the nun’s orphanage and it feels like we’re starting to make some progress. We finished clearing an area of jungle (lots of hard work chopping out bits of bamboo) and then marked out where we want to plant some aubergines tomorrow. Here’s a picture of the team hard at work. We were [...]
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