Nat goes back to London
After one extremely productive year at our Head office, our technical director, webmaster, and chief designer, P'Nat, has left Nongkhai and Thailand to go back to his job at BBC in London.
Some measures of his achievements: We now have twice as many visits to our site and five times more applications than we did last January! We also have a very comprehensive curriculum for teaching different computer skills, from the most basic to quite advanced applications for Internet.
Fortunately Nat has promised to continue working with us from a distance so we feel confident we will be able to keep our site just as functional and good looking as it is now.
Meditating in a forest Temple
Our village, home stay, program has developed. We can now offer volunteers, both male and female, meditation sessions in a forrest Wat near Loei.
Nancy and Janine (here dressed in white as Thai nuns should) from Belgium and Holland, both long time stayers with our programs, took a couple of weeks off to learn meditation in a Wat that accepts women. Janines boyfriend, Jurriaan stayed in a nearby wat, getting meditating lessons from the head monk.
Jennies volunteer story: About getting stuck
When I first arrived to Thailand I had no idea I was going to get stuck, postpone my studies and spend another 7 months in the land of many smiles.
It was quite the change for me to arrive from the everyday stress in Sweden to the easygoing Thailand. Getting used to "thai time" was the most difficult part, things never happen when you want them or the way you want them to. But once I got in to it I realised it was pure healing for me.
My first week I spent in Nongkhai with a big bunch of other newly arrived volunteers. After a week of restoring Meechai school I decided to leave for Namsom, a smaller village a few hours from Nongkhai...
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