Category: Thailand

Pictures from the walk to the elephant sanctuary – it’s up in the mountains and the road getting there was an adventure! Twisty, narrow, and with super steep drop offs on each side. I’m so glad I wasn’t driving… Once we got to the sanctuary, we chopped up sugarcane as a treat for the elephants… Continue reading Day 6 – Elephant Sanctuary

Today, we built a mushroom house, added mushroom spores to over a thousand mushroom bags (that they made yesterday) to go in it, and created a raised bed garden for the school. The students were awesome – they did all this work in 6 hours and still had energy to play with the Thai children!… Continue reading Day 5 – SEEC Service Project Day 2

Post courtesy of Melanie – she wrote it so much better than I could have!! Day 1 of our service project. We learned that a lot of the rural schools in Thailand don’t get enough government money to support their school lunch programs. SEEC (the company we’re working with) have developed a program to build… Continue reading Day 4 – SEEC Service Learning Project

We started the day at the elephant poo paper site – they literally make paper out of elephant poo (dried and sterilized, of course!). It was very cool and the jokes wrote themselves 🤣 We ended the day at the Sanpatong Experiential Education Center (SEEC) where we will be participating in a service project to… Continue reading Day 3 – Chiang Mai/ Elephant Poo Paper to the SEEC

We started the day at Wat Phra Singh, a temple here in Chiang Mai. It was amazing. One of the buildings had dust paintings on the wall that date back centuries (I don’t recall the exact date, may edit this later when I verify). The paintings show daily life for the northern part of Thailand… Continue reading Day 2 – Chiang Mai

Technically, it’s day 3. But since days 1 and 2 were basically travel, I’m not counting them here! Getting here was exhausting, two flights – 16 hours and 5.5 hours. But it’s incredible to be in Thailand. First stop today was at the Museum of Siam, basically a museum showing Thai culture. We spent a… Continue reading Day 1 – Bangkok

Service Learning / Cultural Exploration