A crowded bus. A bumpy road. A washed-out casino, built with a grandeur that doesn’t quite penetrate beyond the faded sign, splashed like an afterthought across the front. An unknown woman, clad in a white t-shirt and a skepticism-inducing aura, whose English knowledge appears to be limited to “give me your passports, now.” A high stone archway, and a rush of humid air as the bus doors close behind our… Read More

We have been in a small town outside of Mae Rim for a week now and all of us are having wonderful cultural experiences, in many of our cases they are like nothing that we have experienced before. Last night was a prime example of the intense cultural immersion: we went to a Thai festival held at a temple. The primary reason for us going to this festival was so… Read More

It was a very cool experience seeing my first Thai temple. We were walking around the old city of Chang Mai when Olivia spotted it from a distance over some low buildings and said “woah what is that!?.” So we all decided that whatever it was that we were doing wasn’t as important and we walked over. We walked in behind some newer buildings and past an unusual number of… Read More