Weekend activities

At the local secondary school, they had a special english-weekend and asked us to participate. We did and had a great time practicing pronunciation, introductions and playing hangman. As they dont get to talk to foreigners very often, we were treated like rockstars. Lots of screaming and excitement! Well I now see how being treated like that can be a reason for trying to become one! :)
By the way: I used this opportunity to teach the kids where Austria is located. AUSTRIA. NOT AUSTRALIA! Maybe next time, when they meet someone from Australia, some of them would say:"aah, Austria!" I'd love that.












We also went to a river with waterfalls and pools full of crystal clear water to swim in... This was just what we needed after a hot, sweaty day!! wonderful.





























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work and play

One of my friends just asked me, wether I was working at all as my blog more seems to be from someone who's on holiday... Well, YES, beside the fun english conversations I also do work in the office to do some marketing outreach and translation into german. No pics about this, would be boring. By the way, people here in the office FORCE me to say I m german sometimes as they think nobody knows Austria anyways... how's that?!! Well, then I go and call Karen english and its all fine. She's scottish.





















Today I had the chance to go back to the burmese school to play around and teach them planting cress (yea I know, HARD work..!;). These kids are amazing, honestly I am already deeply in love with them. But cuddling, dancing, playing badmington, finger-wrestling and clapping games with around 70 happy faces can certainly be exhausting in a humid and hot climate like we have it here! For security reasons, we are not allowed to post pictures of the burmese kids full faces, thats why unfortunatly I cant post most of them. (some of you might see them back home though!)

Exploring the surrounding

19.06.

Karen needed to do a visa-run so Andrew and me went with her to Ranong at the border to Myanmar. While she was busy with going to the island and back again, Andrew and I have been pampered with a long oil massage in a spa nearby... the proper thai massage which I certainly will do another day, knowing that it is very good for your body but not always that enjoyable as it can be quite intense.
Back "home" in Kuraburi, we got Janice to go out for dinner with us, ending up in a restaurant/bar eating, drinking, dancing and having a good time with the locals (we were the only foreigners) until 2:30 in the morning. We met the most gorgeous little girl in the entire world teaching us how to dance to thai music and were spoiled with fresh raw mussels and funny fried spicy things. What a day..!

20.6.

In the afternoon, we got 3 boys with their motorbikes to bring us to the nearest beach, Ao Koei. Just as we were leaving, it started to downpour so heavy that I was a little worried wether my driver would know the way so well to be able to find it blind. But once we arrived at this dramatic deserted beach, it stoped raining and we spent nearly an hour in the bath-like-temperature water jumping around like loonies. On the way back, Tam, Ton and Tu (in Thailand, everybody has nicknames, thank god, as the proper names we would never be able to say) brought us to a nearby little nationalpark where a tiny path through the mangroves led us to another fantastic empty beach.

Could you ever ask for a better weekend...?!

Arriving in Kuraburi

15.6.2010:
After a wonderful flight where I had 3 seats on my own I arrived in Phuket to stay there over night as it was still too late to catch the bus to Kuraburi.
I was tired and just wanted some nice food so I didnt bother about a driver bringing me to which was probably the most expensive restaurant around (cost me about Euro 10,-) for a very nice fish curry and cold singha beer with seaview. The spicyness gave me my first hiccup which made my thailand-feeling complete!

16.6.2010
Caught the bus to Kuraburi (3 1/2h) to arrive in the pouring rain which you can hardly feel on your skin as the temperature is bodylike! I got to know 3 of the girls in the office> Karen (scottish), Laura (french) and Nan (thai) and after checking in in my spacious and pretty room we went to have lunch - suki, a delicious noodle soup with fresh vegetables and seafood....hmmmmmmm
In the afternoon, after getting orientated a bit, Karen and me went out with some local girls to help practice their english with them by doing a conversation and making a video. It was great as we did it at the close Kuraburi Pier!
In the evening we had a fantastic dinner with all the other staff from Andaman Discoveries and their friends. Sitting at the table with all of them, laughing and enjoying the food I did not feel like it was my first day but just so completly comfortable, that was amazing..! Thanks for this very warm welcome!!!

17.6.
In the afternoon, I was going out for some more english-conversation-action with different students. Their father was so nice, constantly feeding me with fruits, chips, prawns and cookies and in the end he even gave me a whiskey for present! I like. :)

18.6.
Last night, Janice and Andrew, 2 students from the states arrived and we went together with P' Tui and Laura to the Burmese School, one of Andaman Discoveries projects. It was just great to see those gorgeous kids with their happy little faces playing around and laughing!