Emma Plom

Emma here -


Our day began at the early hour of six oclock. We stumbled out of bed to the dining hall to eat another amazing meal! The food is so culturaly different and you never know what you will get. There is usually around 5 different dishes all with there own unique flavours, it's so strange but fun to eat food like noodles and chicken wings for breakfast! After breakfast we were on our way to Chiang Mai (two hour drive), we took 15 of the girls from Pakpingjai with us. When we got there we went to a temple up a mountain which looked out on the whole town! The temple was so sparkly and full of so much detail, it felt so spiritually touching! Our next stop was the zoo, which was completely different to any zoo i had been to! All the animals were spread out over such a large area and even the walk around between animals felt so cultural. At this point it was about 4 oclock, we began to head home back to our village- making a few stops on the way. We stopped at the Umberalla Factory where there were a whole lot of people who painted the most intense pictures of butterflies, dragons, elephants and heaps of cool stuff. You could get them to paint on anything, people got painted tops, cameras, wallets, fans etc costing between $2-$6!!! The rest of the drive was very tiring and when we arrived back dinner was served!


ALSO - We got given free sim cards at the airport that fits into our phones, we topped up 100 baht ($4) and it works out to only be 1.5 baht  a minute to ring a landline in NZ! we are all so shocked as to how much Vodafone rips us off in NZ. Its such a plus because we weren't expecting to be able to call home :)


The girls are all so cute and can't stand a moment without us playing with them. If we went for a little rest, two minutes later we would have them knocking on our door chanting "DANCE!" and then they grab our hands and pull us into there rooms to dance with them. There cheerful smiles and enthusiasm could never let you say no! 


Right now i am dying of tiredness so excuse my mistakes,


Good night from EMPEM