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Hello. I'm in thailand right now. In Maesot which is apparently right next to Myanmmar. Cool. We're gonna see the border/bridge tomorrow. They call it the "Friendship bridge". Dad brought us to see some Indian families that they got to know here, most of them are working in the wet market which has really huge disgusting looking fat frogs for sale! Eeeeeww.
We finished our health talk to the kids in Elpis Centre. There's so many of them! We taught about 168 children from the kindergarden grades to grade 6 today. Most of them are so adorable. There's some handsome looking children too.
Me and Nana kept going "potential, potential" (Potential hunks when their older)

The health talk today was more fun than yesterday, we didn't expect our lessons to be so short. But the kids enjoyed today's one better. Will upload the pics once nana sends me the photos taken by her camera. (: Soooo happy. Love love love the kids there. There's this young, cute guy called "Tongtongwin", my translator for the moment. He's english is pretty good. His 14 years and already knows how to ride the motorbike.
And the kids have all these very long interesting names that's so hard to remember. I don't know how the teachers there remember them so fast.

There was this cute little two year old one.. one of our favourites. His mom died about 3 months ago, and his father is working, so the school accepted him. Normally they don't take in kids so young. He comes with his two older brothers who are not that old too. The eldest is kinda matured for his age, his about 4-5years old. It's a little sad knowing that he has to become the mum at such a young tender age. But i'm amazed at how the kids look after and care for each other. Their all so polite too. "Good morning Teacher!", the young ones keep telling us this even if it's already 3 in the afternoon and says this instead of "thank you" when we're handing out the gifts. And they all sing so well! Nana and I taught them some action songs yesterday, so they echo-ed after us. They not only pronounced english so well, they had the correct tune too!
Seeing them reminds me how priveledge we are in Singapore. Some kids run around barefooted, i suppose 'cos their slippers are worn out..I guess that's why their polite, humble, grateful. So different from the way we live our lives in Singapore. Many times we take alot of things for granted.


The guesthouse that we're currently staying at is super awesome!!!
Love the rooms. We get channels from korea and bollywood too! Wheeeeeeeee.. The service here is so good, tho' it's just a small guesthouse, we get free yummy breakfast! (: Wheeeee..
The food here is great, and super cheap at that too. We had a meal with quite a few dishes.Rice with stir fried beef, veggie, egg and tom yam ("tom" is soup by the way, so when we say "tom yam soup", we're saying "soup yam soup") and all that cost only 290baht! About 13 sing dollars to feed and make four people full. (:
(Go read nana's blog to see how most of the restaurants spell "baht", she's blogging right next to me actually, the guesthouse has got computers with internet access for the guests to use and its for free, the owner's a really nice man with such a hearty laughter.)


This trip so far has been wonderful, but Thailand's so hot now, and super dusty too. Most of the females here rides bikes and scooters! Girl Power!! Even aunties ride scooters here too. Auntie Powweerrr!! In Chiangmai, the traffic is heavy with bikes and scooters. Stayed with auntie Jas in Chiangmai for 2 days. Most of the youth now has changed church, so i saw only Tee, Nu and Suwitt. Suwitt was our driver for the first two days. His really amazing, he drove us to and fro Pong Ang village, and the ride is about 2-3hours, i felt a little bad after that 'cos its tiring to drive that long, it was really early when we left to go to the village and we were all tired when coming back. While me and nana was sleeping, he was awake driving us safely to and fro. *Suwitt, our hero!* We actually started calling him "my hero" 3 years back, when he saved our van from falling down a cliff. His english is getting really good, my first trip he couldn't really converse to us, now he understands well, and anwers us well too.


Dad said i'll come more often here in time to come (: Initially he wanted me to stay and help out in Elpis Centre for two weeks. And then stay in Chiangmai for a week.
Seriously i don't mind that.
In future i don't mind coming to countries like this, teaching on health education/stuff like that.. sharing the knowledge that we have, building relationships.


I know i'm ranting so much now like a child.
But the keyboard's difficult to type on, so i'll end my post here.