Today we started at a different children’s home- the nuns’ school – and it seems even hotter than last week which is rather frustrating when we have to keep stopping gardening to step into the shade to save getting sunburned (even with SPF30+) so don’t feel we are doing enough work. We helped cultivate some [...]
Read More...Hello To save repeating too much of the detail from the other posts this week, I will just say that we’ve all had an amazing week and can’t believe we are halfway through the trip, we have helped make some small improvements at the Dream House but we are all sad to be leaving Vik [...]
Read More...Lucky us, we have an ‘orientation day’ in Sankhlaburi today before we start at the school tomorrow so we all took off in the back of a pick-up truck to explore the jungle (with a trip to a museum en route). The vegetation in the jungle was amazing and we tried some tropical fruits fresh [...]
Read More...After an amazing day and a half in Bangkok we are now on the bus to Sangkhlaburi so we can get cracking with the main aim of the trip: the volunteering. The children are a little older than we expected (ranging from 3 to 14), oops I hope they like the finger puppets, stickers and [...]
Read More...Hello We have just arrived. Wow it’s hot – 38 degrees – but we are on a lovely air conditioned bus on the way to the hotel. I love the bright pink taxis though. More updates to follow when we have checked in and explored the Khao san road. The US guys should arrive around [...]
Read More...I really can’t believe we fly to Thailand next Thursday, I can’t wait. I’ve a growing pile of random stuff I have bought in preparation but there is still a few more things to do – not least to find a sun hat that doesn’t cover half my face when I put it on…
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