Blogs from Singburi, Central Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 6

Hi all Well I have survived the first week and all good. Have spent a great week out and about seeing the local sights. First couple of days were looking round temples and visiting villages which was good and generally getting familiar with the area. On Thursday the schedule said we were visiting the local school and we assumed this was to have a look round and find out what goes on ready for when we teach, however once we arrived with were split into groups of 3 or 4 and showed a classroom, once we got to the classsroom there was no teacher to be seen just 25 Thai kids all wildly excited to see us and we had to get on with it for 3 hours. Being completely unprepared it was like entering a ... read more

After our usual breakfast of twelve little deep-fried doughnuts (about the size of an apricot, and filled with a delicious mixture of bananas and white pepper - strange but true), we finished packing our bags at the Blue Star Guesthouse. Another feline friend, a very cute black kitten who we baptised Catchanaburi came by to say goodbye and help us with our packing. He was very curious and tried on a couple of occasions to climb into our rucksacks... The guesthouse called a songthaew for us, and we were duly driven to the bus station about 10 minutes away. There we began the first leg of our 3-step trip from Kanchanaburi to Lopburi. The bus was waiting in its bay, empty and due to leave 20 minutes later. We loaded our bags into the rear of ... read more

So spent all weekend just chilling out at a gorgeous pool and getting drunk on Chang, golden! We went to a crazy festival type show which was really boring as we couldn't understand it however we sat through it and in the end it was okay. Apparently it was the princesses birthday or something! A could cultural experience however the fried cockroach and grass hopper eating was a little strange to say the least, crunchy! The group is really bonding and we keep going to crazy supermarkets buying silly things like water guns and stuff. The mosquitos are loving me, 74 bites on one part of my leg, nice! We were sitting around the other day drinking at the lemon house (the other real gap group house) when a fly infested lavae in my leg, I ... read more