Well it's been quite an easy few days. Helped my young kiddo try and do his maths homework yesterday, but it was all wrong. Trying to exaplain Maths to a 9 year old when you can't talk Thai and they don't understand much English is quite difficult. This morning I went to the local police station and prison, and gave out sandwiches and water to the people there amd preyed for those that asked for it. The cells were small and had around 10 - 15 inmates in each one...

Well.. 2 weeks down! Already dont want to go home... so much more to do and not enough time to do it all! Thursday was the Queens birthday and also Mothers day over here. The Mercy Centre's children were invloved in a parade along beach road to celebrate the day and I was invited to join in. It was really nice to be part of the celebration and to see how loyal and respectful the Thai people are of their country and royal family. In the evening I went to have a su...

The beach day was great!! As usual though I forgot to put sun cream somewhere and so this time I got burnt legs! I took some of the older children out onto a sea kayak for an hour which they really enjoyed and also tried to teach some of the younger ones to swim. (Will upload photos soon). Sunday was quite a relaxing day. Took all the children from the house to the Victory Family Church service and after I had some time to walk around Pattaya and get lost or have...

So I spent my first day here at the centre on Thursday. In the morning I went to the chum chum (slum) area and helped distribute bags of food to the families that lived there. This included rice, oil, noodles and milk for the children. It was quite upsetting but the people were so grateful and thankful for it. After I spent some time with the children in the early learning centre playing with toys and games! Great! In the evening, we went back to one of the chum ...

Well here I am day 5! My first 2 nights in Bangkok were crazy. I stayed in the Koh San road area on the Saturday night which was an experience. Crazy people everywhere... I fitted in well! On Sunday I took a bus (which was a pickup truck) to Trat and then caught a ferry to Ko Kood. The island was really nice except it pretty much rained the whole time I was there. The people seemed friendly although they didn't understand me. I managed to squeeze in a mini kayaki...