So after a long week I leave Bangkok and travel by train to Chumpon. The train took about 8 hours but I got my own bed, blanket and pillow! I got chatting to a lovely Thai girl who's name she told me translated in English is reindeer and that if I wanted I could call her reindeer, I instantly liked her. I arrived late to my new hotel so went straight to bed. The next morning I got up early to check out my new home for the next 2 weeks, I have Thung Wua Laen beach right on my doorstep but unfortunately I have arrived after a storm which has brought in a LOT of rubbish from the sea. I am told this happens around this time every year and once all the rubbish is out of the sea they have a big clean up. I have been shown pictures of what the beach normally looks like, I am sad I won't get to see it that way. Later that day, Jeng an i-to-i volunteer takes me into central Chumpon to show me around, do some shopping and get some food. Monday was my first day teaching, the head teacher of the school picks me up and drops me off every day. The school is tiny and has only about 40 students! My first class is a class of 6 12 year olds. I had no idea what to expect and didn't really have anything planned or even any idea of how much English they knew, the teacher just left the room when I got there and so I just had to improvise. Needless to say, they quickly got bored. I had a couple of hours before my next class so spent that time putting together some sort of lesson plan. My second class was a group of 9 10 year olds, they were really fun and as long as you play some games with them they stay pretty well behaved. Later that week, Tong another i-to-i volunteer came to stay for a few days and what a great few days we had! The first night we went to a great bar called maliblues run by an effortlessly cool couple with live blues music every night, a lot of Thai rum was drank so the next day to cure our hangovers we went for a 2 hour long Thai massage. Then Tong took me out for a motorbike lesson, I was terrified and can't have gone much faster than about 10 mph the whole time, we went down a quiet road and after a while I started to get the hang of it and even managed to change gears. All was going well until I started to panic and tried to break with my feet...oops! No harm done just a couple of grazed toes and some chipped nail varnish and so back to Maliblues for some more rum and good music. The next day we went to a boarding school for autistic kids where I helped serve their tea, the kids were lovely and a lot of fun. Yesterday was Tongs last day here so he took me to a turtle sanctuary were the turtles are loving looked after until they are big enough and well enough to be let free in the sea. And so I sadly waved Tong off at the train station but now feel very at home here, I have quickly come to love it here at Thung Wua Laen beach, everyone is so nice and as cheesey as it is to describe it this way; they are all like one big family which you are so quickly and lovingly accepted into, I will be sad to leave this place next week.
That is all from me for now, sorry I have still been unable to upload any pictures. Hopefully I will be able to get some up soon.
Much love x
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