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Spa days and cooking class chaos

We spent a divine morning at the luxurious Legend Spa, built in a stately home. After a full body massage I ill-advisedly chose to have a mineral mud body mask which involved stripping, being covered in mud and wrapped in cling film, unable to move for twenty minutes while desperately needing...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on December 2, 2009 from Chiang Mai, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand 2009

Doing it for the kids

Well, today was a relaxed day. In the morning, we tried our hand at bracelet weaving in the school's weaving room (weaving clothes is a skill that could earn some of the kids money later in life)...it's more tiring than it looks and takes forever! Well, for us novices, anyway. In the...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on December 1, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand 2009

A very busy day off

On our day off from teaching (well, I say teaching, it's really more keep-the-kids-entertained-so-they-don't-resort-to-terrorising-innocent-animals) project leader Claire took us on yet another whirlwind tour of Kanchanaburi district. We began with a very speedy longtail boat ride (they use the...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on December 1, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand 2009

Hot springs, Hellfire Pass and yet more waterfalls

We spent the morning at the Hindad Hot Springs, used mostly by locals for its health benefits. You have to spend a few minutes sitting in the cold River (while trying not to get swept away by the current) and then hop right into the hot (and when they say hot, they mean HOT!) springs. It...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on December 1, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand 2009

A.B.C.D.E.F.G...

Back to work...we spent the morning teaching the kids their alphabet, giving them chalk so that they could practice by writing on the floor. We each worked with a two or three kids, but despite the individual attention some of the kids were soon off running around or napping in a corner...after...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on December 1, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand 2009

Brushing, cooking and dancing

Today our mission for the kids was...teaching them to clean their teeth properly! We gave them all their own tooth brush, but our attempts to write their names on them failed as the kids kept rubbing the pen off so that they could come back and get us to write their names all over...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on December 1, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand 2009

Mother's Day, Thai style

Today is Mother's Day, a celebration of the Queen of Thailand and of mothers in general. The problem was, most of the children at Moo Baan Dek either do not have, or do not see, their own mothers. Despite this, a big ceremony is planned each year and the eleven of us ISV-ers were about to...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on November 30, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand 2009

Teaching hyperactive children is no picnic

Our first lesson with the kids went well: nobody died, although I think somebody cried. We used all sorts of increasingly desperate measures to teach the kids their prepositions: "under", "over", "in" and "out". We started off with the tried-and-tested Hokey Kokey (or Hokey Pokey, if you're...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on November 30, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand 2009

Phuket... retreats and time apart

We left our friends in Ko Tao and headed back on the ferry to Ko Samui for our flight to Phuket. Little did we know, but the rain that we had over the last few days at the coral view was the tail end of another hurricane in the Philippines. We got to enjoy 3-4 meter swells on the catamaran...

permalink written by  ECRadventure on November 28, 2009 from Phuket, Thailand
from the travel blog: ECRadventure's Travel Blog

elephants, oxs and bamboo rafting

i have just ridden on an elephant! the day started with seeing the elephants and having your photo taken with them, before watching them washing in the river. i was surprisingly intimidated by them! they were so big! we then had an elephant show which was very touristy and quite cringy. the...

permalink written by  Clairesj on November 27, 2009 from Chiang Mai, Thailand
from the travel blog: Clairesj's Travel Blog

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