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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

Lesson planning and Thai massage

First thing today we joined in with the morning activities: after meditation, the children play games and, despite having been up since 5am for chores, they are little balls of energy, fighting for our attention and demanding cuddles and treats. Afterwards, we planned a simple lesson on...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 11, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand 2009

The day I discovered I'm worse at art than a six year old

We began our first ‘work’ day at Moo Baan Dek with an orientation talk in the school assembly room with the vice principal. Enlightening as it was, our attention was firmly fixed on the progress of a huge tarantula clinging to the ceiling in front of us…sure enough, it soon lost its grip and...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 10, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand 2009

Demonic cows and curious giraffes

Our first night in Thailand was...eventful. Highlights included one of a local farmer's cows - which I decided to rename 'Hellcow' - escaping and spending a good half hour circling our house and ringing the VERY loud bell around its neck, followed at 4am by some early-rising rebel playing...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 9, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand 2009

From Bangkok to Kanchanaburi

We Brits arrived at Bangkok airport around 9am, wondering how we were going to get through another day without crashing out...particularly since the day turned out to be so eventful. We hardly had time to recover from the flight before we found ourselves making yet more introductions - to the...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 8, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand 2009

Tiger Temple

One of the most interesting volunteer opportunities I was able to find is the chance to work with the endangered Bengal Tiger. This place is known as the Tiger Temple. It's only a couple hours west of Bangkok in the well known town of Kanchanaburi. They have 18 Bengal Tigers and more on the way....

permalink written by  Archie on July 28, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Thailand

Living on the River - Kanchanaburi

On Sunday we said goodbye to Joe and Bangkok and set off for Kanchanaburi. Kanch is a region made famous by the move, "The Bridge over the River Kwai," but also has many other things to offer the tourist/backpacker. We arrived at the bus stations and took a pcik-up truck taxi to the main...

permalink written by  bhkann on June 23, 2009 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Ben's SE Asia Voyage

Pa habernos matao!

Tras cinco horas en dos autobuses de lo más curiosos, nos hemos plantado a un par de kilómetros del puente sobre el río Kwai (sí, el de la peli). Hoy la habitación era una cabañita en el susodicho río con su terrazita, su hamaquita, su puentecito de estabilidad dudosa y por supuesto, su ración...

permalink written by  NuiM on October 16, 2008 from Kanchanaburi, Thailand
from the travel blog: Un viaje por el sudeste asiático

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