Family trips

Leaving tonight, yay, I'm looking foward to seeing Kelly, it been uch a long time. Her and paul promised to meet me with Mr doughnuts at 8 am at the airport!! I till have no idea what i we are doing on the day of my 21st birthday, but it had better be something good!!
I also talked to Mum the other day and she is already begining to organie her trip here. I'm so proud of her for finally getting a passport! She also told me that they were giving my liftime membership to the ski lodge in Jynderbine for my birthdcay which is great!!

Akhai

I just about have all of their trust. Today on morning shift we cooked food and after that Akhai decided she wanted to help wash up. I'm not sure how much help she was and probably only succeeded in getting both herself and me wetter than was necessary but we had a lot of fun. For the rest of the day she chatted away to me not in the least bit interested that i only understood every second thing she said. Now I just have to work on Sukanya who doesn't seem to trust any of the volunteers. In other news I fell off my push bike onto the gravel on the way home. Luckily I was wearing jeans but i still cut a hole in my knee (same leg as before).

Flower festival

Last Friday morning we went on a TO to the Flower festival that Chiang Mai is holding. countries from all over the world have submitted beautiful works. The show last for 3 months and they have put so much work into it. The Prince wsa going to visit that afternoon and so we could see workers everywhere freshening up the flowers makeing it look even more beautiful.

This is part of South Africa's entry, it was beautiful to walk through the setting looking at all the art and native flora. Unfortunantly Australia sisnt submit an entry but i was quite proud when i could ask the tour leader if Australia did and it was even better when i understood the answer!

The was an amazing construction. It is a cone made of what looked like bark with flowers growing on the inside. Its huge, easily big enough for a person to walk a few meters in.

We spent all morning at the festival and stopped in a carpark on the way home to have lunch. We were so late i lmost missed my thai class but then at the last minute Somping called to say that her daughter-in0law was in labour so it was excitment plus that day.