Day 10,11,12

Sorry no word. We traveled a long way into NE Thailand. We are on the boarder of Laos. We visited a prison on Monday (Swang Daen Din). We taught some English and heard some stories from the prisoners.

Tuesday (day 11) 9 of us left early on the bus to travel to Sakon Nakhon Prison about a 1hr drive. We were in pairs and we taught at five stations for 30 min in am and again in the afternoon. It was so much fun. The rest of our group went with Stacey and toured around the country, harvested some rice and visited some local people. Then they taught ESL at a church from 5-7. It is very hot here. The group of 9 who taught at the prison got to stop at an aquarium on the way home that has all different types of fish found in the Mekong River... creepy and prehistoric to say the least.

Wednesday (day 12) all of us traveled to the prison to teach again for the morning. A different group of five left with Stacey to make the trip back to Nakhon Phanom to tour an abandoned prison (what they used to be like) and to teach again at the church.

We have traveled a long ways in the past 12 days from Phenom Penh Cambodia to Siem Reap (by bus...) Cambodia. Flew over to Bangkok and then flew up to Udon Thani. Then in the bus to Sakon Nakhon and then to Nakhon Phanom (about 2.5 hours from Udon Thani). After we make it back to Udon Thani we will board the night train to Bangkok. It really feels as long as it sounds. But what a great time. We are seeing and doing things that the average tourist does not get to see. We have had great hosts along the way and very appreciative of their ability to speak the local languages.

Talk to you soon and take care.