Serve Thailand 2005
Ngee Ann Poly
10-23 Oct 2005
One Heart Touching Many Hearts
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
hi guys... really sorry for the late update.. completely forgotten.. realised that ba cares is comin round the corner.. n this blog is used to tell future overseas trip goers what happens!! haha.. anyway.. i'm gonna update abt the trip.. its from my personal point of view.. lifted from my diary.. so yupz.. no offence.. here goes....
Day 1 - 10th Oct 05
I met my team at the airport at 6am. Mr leow and 2 previous overseas volunteers came to send us off, and some parents as well. We checked in and went into the departure gate and walked ard.
We boarded the plane, I had the window seat nxt to jennifer. the scenery was very nice, the clouds had diff patterns and colours. i wonder what it's like to seat and play on the fluffy white vapours. from e sky, i could look down and see singapore, like a mini display, so pretty. food came, i didn't hear e stewardess properly, so i took e same as jen, duck rice -_-"... i had duck mee for dinner e night before lor.. after eatin we packed e pepper n salt, butter n jam to bring to buriram juz in case.
When we landed, we went to check out and take our luggage. ben tan was commenting that the system in singapore is diff. if there is no queue in a counter they will move e ppl there to shorten e queue, but thailand hv to queue chao long. We took e luggage tt carried a yellow ribbon. after checking the everyones' was there, we went to check out.
Pikul and 5 other girls came to fetch us and presented us with garlands around our necks. i feeel so honoured and touched by the warm welcome that was received. we loaded our luggage in the cach and proceeded on our long journey to buriram where a new chapter is soon to begin.
2hrs ride seems like very long as i dozed off halfway. comparing the infrastructure between bangkok and buriram, i could really see the difference between th rich provinice and e poorer province. and for the 1st time in my life, i saw cows and chickens and mules along e road, wandering freely. real life!! so... we stopped halfway for toilet break, the toilets was like yew... only water to flush down, kinda not say dirty la, but like very old n dark... after tt we stopped for lunch at a restaurant, kampong style!! the decor was very nice with waterfalls and all, even the toilet had plants n flowers that look like a high class hotel with the exception of a squatting bowl n a pool of water to 'wash up', no tissue! the food was real nice though, the catfish was delicious, looked like rock brown sugar but yummy!! Aroi mak mak... n plus some other dished like fish, chicken, chao spicy tomyam soup etc. cost only abt 2100baht for abt 29 ppl. so cheapz...
We reached buriram at abt 5 pm, after 6hrs of ride.. left our luggage at the L.I.F.E foundation house and went for a stroll. the sun was about to set and the scenery was gorgeous. we past by houses on the way and you can really tell the diff between the rich n e poor.
After that was diner!! rice, drumlets, mixed veg and fishballs. there was a lot of 'wings' (some dunno wut insects) gathering ard e garlands so we quickly throw them away. they also offered us some fried grasshoppers.. gross... i didn't wanna touch.. haha.. but a few of them dared to hold them and take pictures pretendin to eat the grasshoppers.. haha.. for future storytelling
The condition of the place was far better then i expected, my imagination brought me to the worst scenerio.. anyway.. we set up the mosquito nets n ZzzZzz... couldn't really sleep.. quite cold... juan mei oso..
~Audrey~
12:44 AM
