Volunteering & Volunteer Students

The New Year has started off terribly bustling here at Thai Mueang Volunteers. Our first volunteer of 2008 started her ordering with us at Ban Thateang heyday approach on January 12. Karen from Canada writes about her first weeks with Thai Mueang Volunteers:

So far, so upstanding here with Thai Mueang Volunteers. It assuredly helps having a nice inactive residence to go help to after a hooligan day at school! The house is 1.5 km's gone from of township, surrounded by rubber tree farms and is very picturesque.

Teaching has so extreme been utter challenging, but also very fun. I may be learning precisely as much as the kids! I intend that down the next two weeks I can clear my teaching skills and help the kids to enhance greatly; the older kids are especially keen and nimble-witted learners. The highlights of the day are definitely the enthusiastic responses of the kids when they dig me, and the everyday visit from the ice cream man at lunch. Ice cream was a major purposes of my diet here throughout the first week, as the restaurant menus (written in Thai solitary) are a interest more daunting. positive thing for my Thai lessons three times a week!

I am greatly enjoying the simplicity of my life in Thai Mueang; teaching and eating are the no greater than requirements of any given hour and I look deasil to the coming weeks.