So today is St Valentines day, and it seems that no one knows better how to celebrate than the Thais! There are red roses everywhere and my students have been giving me sweets and heart shaped stickers to wear! I haven't actually taught today either as it's near the end of term and they are mean to be revising for their finals next week-though in actual fact they were just having a laugh and celebrating valentines. Like everything Thai's are passionate about it w...

SO Loi Krathong festival is celebrated by Thai's and it's believed that if you put a krathong (a lantern in the shape of a lotus) down the river, then all your bad luck will literally flow away! It's at the same time as and not to be confused with Yi Peng, which is where you put lanterns into the sky, the effect of both at the same time is wonderful, especially from the far bridge where I could stand with Krathong floating under me, and lanterns and fireworks i...

So got up (relatively) early this morning to catch the bus to Sukhothai. We went with Art, and the American teachers (Lara, Rochelle and Nate). As we were last on the bus there were last on the bus we had to stand, but the bus was only an hour long so it wasn't that bad really!The others all had breakfast and then we hired push bikes and started cycling around the temples. Art has been there many times before (He's Thai by the way) so we all followed him arou...

An amazing three weeks. After 5 weeks since seeing all the volunteers together we all assembled in Chiang Mai. As soon as we got there me Keina and Ruth went on a quest to find pizza! We were unsuccessful but found a place called Butter Is Better, which is an American Diner come bakery, aka heaven for me with my sweet tooth. I went many times in the 3 weeks there. The AUA course was really good, our teacher was really kind (she often bought us snacks) and I act...

We arrived in Tak on Saturday afternoon after a 7 hour journey. Probably the longest bus ride I'd been on in my life (up to this point!) I was picked up at the bus station by Pee Ju (my Co-teacher) and Pee Pin (my host mother). For the first two weeks we stayed in Pee pins's house which is really nice-more than I was expecting-and for the first week I mostly lazed about the house all day as we'd been given it off to settle in and recover from jet lag. I didn't ...