Between Thursday and Monday we had some time off due to a Buddhist holiday meaning schools were closed. This meant that we had some time to explore Thailand a little!
The easiest way to be concise in telling you all about it is to let you know all of the different forms of transport we've taken...
Car, quad bikes, back of a pick up truck, squashed inside a pick up truck, raft, bus, tuk-tuk, elephant, boat, train... There was also plenty of walking, including up and down hundreds of stairs to see (and be soaked by) a couple of very impressive waterfalls in Khao Yai National Park, and through ALOT of mud, which surprisingly our shoes survived!
It seems that nobody else in Thailand walks anywhere... they all get around by scooter (usually about 3 squashed on to one) which made us stand out even more as we walked around the streets of Ayutthaya city on Saturday.
Sunday and Monday we had to rest and to celebrate Pete's birthday (who is one of Tim and Brenda's sons). This involved some very yummy food, including a coconut curry which we all want to learn the recipe for!
Today we were back in schools. This was the first time we've gone without Tim, but we all survived (thanks to Brenda's help in translation). The school was quite small, so we were joined by some other kids from another school in the area. The kids seemed really keen for us to return, so it was a shame to say we couldn't. Hopefully Tim and Brenda will be able to return, maybe with another team, in the future! The end of our visit led to yet another photo-op with the strange white girls before we were presented with a bowl of weird multi-coloured dough balls floating in some kind of coconutty soup. Yum!
Tomorrow we'll be heading back to Lopburi to join some university students for their English class. Not really done anything like this yet, so hopefully it will go ok!
Thanks for your prayers and support,
Siobhan, Sarah and Aileen
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