The past two days have really been a daze! We have walked around a market with wonderful delicacies such as baby calfs head sausages, fried insects, jumping Carp, and hundreds of different of potions concoctions and drinks. We have taught in two schools, walked around the local village purchasing delicious (I think) baby coconut and a drink yet to be consumed... Today (Thursday) some people went to a lake and then to another market. Yesterday a group of us went to Phayao to barter for items as diverse as food and medicine. We are getting used to the early morning "political broadcast" on the village loudspeaker system and heard it all the time in Phayao. Whilst there we purchased a number of musical items to upgrade the instruments here. Much of the money for this was thanks to the wonderful kids who worked hard on the Potpourri CD. Also some more finances have been made available through the group. So the music programme is going to be well funded and ongoing. Nicky and myself form the music team and are working hard to ensure music is a core subject in our work. The teaching has been made easy because of the hard work put in by Summer and Andrew. They have worked tirelessly to ensure the outcome is effective and well planned. It has also been enjoyable engaging in conversation with the school children. Today a soccer match was held at the Academy (secondary school). It was all concrete and the result was a 4 all draw... a few blisters were gained by our soft St Heliers feet!
From my own point of view the group is working and bonding extremely well together. Stan is pleased with the group and is leading us very well. Our hosts here are just amazing. Food is everywhere. Bottled water by the gallon and the willingness to serve any need is a great example to our privileged society.
Photos will be added tonight along with a movie... Thanks for following us and don't forget to email us at pakpingjainz@gmail.com .
Thanks and regards
Peter "the blogger" Chatteris
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