Hi teacher, how are you?

Now that things have settled a bit, a more detailed recap is in order, there are a few things of special note that I wasn't able to give the right attention.

A bit more about Nai Soi. There are three levels of classes given here for a school year that runs from May to April. Class sizes are a very manageable 10 to 15 and they are given in English, Thai, Japanese and for the next few days Morgan has developed a HIV/AIDS health class. The students come from all over the area, some are refugees and others are "undepriviledged" in the words of the director of the school, Joe.

Here are Emmett and Jason giving some Burmese History and English lessons, respectively:

The school has three main classrooms that are built of mud bricks and tin roofs, and there is electricity and internet from a satellite dish. Bathrooms have manual flush toilets, where you pour water into them for the flush and the showers are buckets. Fill up the bucket and dump it on yourself. The bathroom is just a wet room that is sloped towards a drain. Its an interesting experience the first time, and definitely a little cold in the morning, but it does the trick and uses very little water.

Bucket on the left:

The first night we stayed in Mae Hong Son, which is about a 30 minute motorbike ride from Nai Soi. There are many, many Wots in the towns that we have been too. They're really beautiful and ornate, this is the main one in Mae Hong Son:

We got up in the morning and headed to the central market, which was awesome. The markets are always the best way to see what is going on in a town, its the lifeblood and heart of any society and I love to see what is going on there:

In their standard awesomeness the school decided to have a party for Jason, Max and Morgan as they were all leaving within the next week. There was dancing, singing, a great shoe giveaway and tons of laughter and smiles:

We went on a great hike up the ridge of a mountain after the party with 20 or so of the students. Like I said before, this was probably one of the most fun hikes I have ever been on; it was beautiful scenery and the students continued to amaze me with their compassion and happiness.

Dinner at the directors house followed our game of teachers vs. students volleyball game. Korean style BBQ, a first for me, was really fun. We were all pretty beat after the fun filled day, so it was an early night.