Sa wat dee kaaa, I'm back! After a short but sweet school holiday in the UK (getting AWAY from the rays), I've made a 30-hour, 3-plane return back to my tropical home-from-home, my little village in a northern corner of Thailand. And I've somehow found myself already 2 months in, so I think it's about time to write another blog while I melt under the air-con, watch the sun set over the distant mountains from my bedroom window and munch on a banana...

Oh god. I've failed miserably at keeping up with this "regular" blog about my Thai adventure. Though I guess between bamboo-rafting through caves, cartwheeling over canyons, endless hours squished into an overly air-conned coach seat, getting lost on bike rides locating the local "Monk on the Hill", hopping across the border to Myanmar for a last minute visa switch, crashing motorbikes, climbing mountainous temple staircases, camping beside the sea, Christmas pa...

What's happened to me. On the 6th October 2012, a nervous wreck landed in a sweaty Bangkok International airport wondering why on earth she puts herself up to crazy challenges like teaching her complicated language to a bunch of kids in a very foreign South-East Asian country. Without a word of local gab. But here I am looking back on a pretty darn crazy set of escapades in my first 6 weeks of living in the Land of Smiles. Here's a little sample t...