Cleaning the Beach

Ko Tao - Secret Garden

Secret Garden Environmental Activity Centre

July 25th 2008
I am doing well with my volunteer project. I have been busy with daily beach clean-ups, teaching the kids swimming on the weekends, hiking and surveying a grass planting area after a massive rockslide on the island, etc... There are about 15 volunteers, most of them in their early 20s. They are from the i 2 i program and most are English. Very nice group! Half are teaching English at the sc ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more

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This is where we're at . . . "You will have to leave it all behind and go on later. Why not make it meaningful and leave it all right now?" ~Milarepa, Tibetan yogi poet "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widenin... full info

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