Tuesday 14 December 2010

Update from October and November.

Ages ago! We had a birthday party at my house for Thai teacher Ki Ki's sister. I made spaghetti. As usual with the salt...



Some of the students..




Yummyyyyyy cake!



Teacher Ki Ki and I.






Then Sayama P Say Heh went to Scotland! Teacher Sunday is helping to pack her suitcase.


I lent P Say Heh my Burmese - English dictionary. She didn't need it though, everyone thought she only had a little English but she went and could speak brilliantly. Sneaky!



Her daughter was sick and throwing up in her bed whilst we were packing..


This is at Jack and Niamh's pig on a spit lunch.


Who are the brothers??



This is the day after the refugees fled into Mae Sot. The next day I went to the nursery to bring back a few things and the nursery had about 15 refugees sleeping on the floor! So I went and brought round some tablet I had made the day before.

They were shy to accept it so I left the box on the table...came back 15 mins later and ALL the tablet was gone. Who knew??

Little baby liked it too..by the way, they recently changed his name from Heh P'lu Soe to Heh P'lu Zai.


I brought in some of the nursery's resources for the temporary refugee children to play with. We watched the jungle book on my computer too. I brought magazines and make up for the women hahaha.



Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I'm going to write this one very fast as I can't bear to look at the photo......!!!

MOUSE!!!!



I also went to Chiang Mai at the end of October. This was the first time I met Kyaw Win's baby daughter. She is very very sweet!

It was nearly Loi Kratong, so they had lots of cool light effects at the Gates of Chiang Mai.


We sent of a huge Loi Kratong lantern together.


In Chiang Mai, I went to get my feet nibbled by fish!


KFC with teacher Ki Ki...


Prepare yourself.....this photo is brutal!!
















Muslim New Year at Mae La refugee camp! I went to visit Ni Shar's family inside Mae La for Muslim New Year and watched two bulls being slaughtered. It was....interesting. I watched the whole thing and apparently was sitting too close cause I had blood on my face!!



Say Ta Nar teacher.



Little kitten found at the clinic.


CDC Kindergarten chatting with P Say Heh whilst she was in Scotland. The wonders of Skype!


Eh Nar Moo's wedding being prepared.

My little family.


One of the Miss Loi Kratong contestants from CDC.

Ailsa, Jack and I went swimming with Sylvia and May May at the hot spring.



Loi Kratong floats.

P Say Heh returns from Scotland to teach Kindergarten.

Outside CDC, harvesting something...I don't know.

Pho Cho and Ni Shar's daughter putting thannaka on my face.


Nursery student literally climbing the walls!!





I feel so guilty that I haven't posted anything in ages! Now my computer's broken and all my photos are on there. I will fill in the gaps when I get home and post recent updates.

Sorry!! Louise x

Monday 6 December 2010

Dr Cynthia's Birthday


It was Dr Cynthia's birthday on Sunday but it was the King of Thailand's birthday then and the whole nation really celebrate that so Dr Cynthia's birthday was celebrated today by CDC School, the school she started from Mae Tao Clinic. You can see Dr Cynthia above speaking to her patients.
For more than a month, Louise has been practising Karen dance and song for 2 hours a day in preparation for a competition and to perform for Dr Cynthia. You can see the huge poster they made for Dr Cynthia's birthday in one of the photos.


Dr Cynthia's birthday presentation on PhotoPeach



I've blogged this to help Louise catch up with her blogs. She'll probably give me a(nother) row and hate the slideshows. Louise, you can delete them. You're looking fabulous. Love. Mum

Naw Chit's wedding

Naw Chit's Wedding on PhotoPeach