Our latest volunteer, Melissa, arrived yesterday morning. Her train was delayed so I had an hour chilling out at the station with an excellent Ice Coffee before she arrived shortly after 9.30am.
Melissa is currently on a break from working in Australia and hails from France.
She has previously had experience working with children in Africa and I’m sure she will be a big plus to the Foundation during her stay.
With the children at school right now Melissa’s first day was spent looking around the children’s home and learning a little about what we do.
At lunch time we popped down to the primary school where Melissa got to say hello to our younger children.
When the children got home from school she was very soon joining them, doing more of the papier mache art they started on the weekend and enjoying a game of badminton after dinner.
Melissa then spent time helping the younger girls with English homework before heading over to the Volunteer house for a well earned rest.
Today Melissa is spending time at the school taking a look at how things run in a local Thai school before taking time out for sight seeing in Chiang Mai in the afternoon.
Around the borders of our site you can see many small wickered ‘fences’ like these which mark where he has planted pumpkin and marrows.
The aim is that eventually the revenue from these boxes may cover the basic running costs of the home.
We hope to purchase a net this weekend and Boonma is possibly going to make us a basketball hoop very soon.
