We have spent around a month in the interesting city of Chiang Mai, Thailand. The five of us spend our time in different ways.
-Brian has taken a Thai Massage course with Kuan Amanda. He has also taken some time to reflect on his different goals in life, such as his future coffee shop.
-Amanda has done a variety of activities, the Thai Massage course, meditation group, yoga, and exploring the city.
-Tessa has spent her time rock climbing, teaching orphans to cha-cha and making the BEST memories of her young life with Alecc and I.
-Alecc and I have spent our time in a similar way, as the se Asians say, “Same, Same, but Different”. We both volunteer five days a week at Care For Dogs. Care for Dog is a dog shelter for abused, and abandoned dogs in Chiang Mai.
Some group things we have done together…
-Monk chat: a really cool thing, where ppl can come together and average ppl can ask a monk any question that comes to mind.
-Three weeks of Thai Language school with Kuan Sompop. Favorite thing I learned: Jing-luh?! (Really?) Jing-Jing! (Really!)
-Sunday market, Night Market, Day Market= A lot of shopping = many gifts for the people we all love. <3>
-AirportPlazaaaa. Alecc, Tessa and I all saw the movies Surrogates, and 2012. After 2012 (which we saw on the premiere, last night, we stumbled on a rock concert. No one was dancing and the three of us along with our new Chinese, Thai and Sweden friend went to the edge of the stage and started dancing. Suddenly everyone got up and started grooving! The lead singer hopped off the stage and joined in with us and all the 14 year old awe-struck Thai girls! A memory I’ll never forget.
-One weekend our gang went to Pun-Pun!
Pun-pun is a crazy organic hippy seed saving Eco-farm. We slept on the most uncomfortable thin mats in the eco friendly building. The most important thing to know about this weekend is that we found out half the people at this place drink their own pee. Its quite shocking but after an explanation its not quite as weird as it first sounds to western ears. There was also a awesome monk at this eco-farm, that made painting for all of the girls. A man named Justin who lives at Pun-pun with his four month pregnant German girlfriend taught us how to make bread. Pun-Pun was quite the experience I won’t forget soon.
Our trip is quickly reaching its end. With only 19 days left we head to Bangkok tomorrow, to volunteer for 5 days at an organization that work with orphaned children who are HIV positive and have disabilities. Tessa organized this volunteer position for us and I am quite excited to start our work there.
P.S. I miss Tyler and Conor now almost as much as Alecc and Tessa do. haha
-Love
Stephanie
