Thailand
Mae Ra Moe Refugee Camp
We spent a week in Mae Ra Moe, the ‘Club Med’ of the Karen refugee camps. The location is breathtaking; it’s in the middle of the jungle with a river through the middle of it and, compared to the other camps, pretty spacious.
Thai Boxing training begins
It’s tough as the trainer and the rest of the students don’t really speak English so well and my Thai is, well, pretty ropey if you don’t count ordering beers and counting to ten. Most of what is taught is demonstrated. Injuries and throwing up from over-exertion aside, it’s great.
Mae La Oon - camp Thai Burma border
The site’s a pretty bad one – incredibly beautiful but impossibly impractical. It’s situated on a river with steep, densly-jungled sides. At first, huts were slipping into the river and still do during the rainy season. They’ve managed to build houses, schools, hospitals and clinics and are building and developing further.
Crossing the border to Burma from Mae Sot
after looking round the stalls in Mae Sot you find they are filled with the most amazing artifacts. Abby spotted a field telephone from 1941 that we would have loved to have brought back but the thing was so heavy, we could never have got it home.
Bangkok and the Khao San Road
“The only downer is everyone’s got the same idea, we all travel thousands of miles just to watch TV and check into somewhere with all the comforts of home. And you you’ve got to ask yourself, what’s the point.”
Golawa (westerners) skin is white
“Golawa (westerners) skin is white because when god made you, he had dust on his hands from pounding rice. When he made Asian people he had charcoal on his hands from tending the fire”(Karen women, Village).
Huay Xia to Pak Beng - Thai/Lao Border
We left
Carabao Concert Mae Sariang
We were well looked after though, it felt like we had our own police guard one of 90 police officers there took it upon himself to follow us around, the Thai army were also standing by. I’m not sure what they were expecting.
Mae Sariang
I’ve got four web sites to build, three interns to train, networks to set up, PCs to fix (Craig if you’re reading expect an e-mail any day soon). Can’t really say much more about what we will be doing, due to the nature of our work. Everyone has been great since we arrived, very hospitable.
Monk Chat in Chang Mai
“do not work for money, only work in something you enjoy.”
Burns Supper in Northern Thailand
“Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding-race! Aboon them a' yet tak your place,”
Karen/Burmese Wedding - Thailand
It took about thirty minutes huddled in the back until we reached our destination. Abby and I had been invited to the wedding for the daughter of a prominent member of the Karen community.
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