Well, so much to say so little time! First week here has been incredibly hard! No one here speaks english and the school is huge! 2000 kids and its just a primary school. The first weekend was very lonely being placed in several different apartments and not knowing what was going on really. I'm now in a lovely place thanks to the lovely Pen and her team. Unfortunately Pen had to leave me and go back to bangkok last saturday so I had two days to kill in my new ...

Now enroute to my school, up in the deepest depths of north east thailand and very very nervous. I'm gonna be teaching kids aged 3 to 11 in a primary school in Sakon Nakhon. I'm on my own with the nearest other interns a four hour bus ride away and have been traveling from bangkok all day. Still 4 hours away from my city so in a hotel with another lovely intern who were dropping off on the way tomorrow, its late here and i have to iron my school clothes for to...

Very very quick, using annas remaining internet time. Mum this should send to your inbox so you can find it otherwise google me and sta and it should come up. Had a much more relaxed but also crazy few days, other interns all here now! Some very lovely people and lots of us here! Still dont know what i'm doing. Managed to find some likeminded explorers who dont mind wandering around on the public transport and managed to reward their faith in me last night by ...

hi hi, this will be a quickie, just checking this stil works and wasteing some time while the others are on line! Got here late late last night, dropped off bags and headed to the koh sahn road for noodles and beer with charlie, craig and anna. Managed to remember my way around and take us to some of my favourite places! Even waved at my dentist as we went past! Thai;land is as perfect as I remember, feels great to be here, the sounds and smells of bangkok, w...

Hello. arrived here at the border town a little while ago after a 5 hour drive from Chiang Mai. The scenery on the way was beautifull and stopped off at the hill tribe museam and a restaurant called Cabbages and Condoms, run by a company who have been promoting family planning here in thailand for twenty years. This is literally a border town, our guest house in on the banks of the mekong and the rooms all open up onto an amazing view, on the other side of the ...