I am perpetually mind boggled with how unbelievably fast time is moving here. The days have started blending in together and I'm getting burnt out. I haven't even had the opportunity to implement any projects of my own, I'm just caught up teaching, doing administrative work, visitors, the radio and the activity room for the kids. The Half Day School's term is supposed to finish pretty soon.

We've got this new volunteer named Carole and she's awesome. She's an American born from Laos parents, so she speaks Laos fluently which is really similar to Thai, the way that Spanish and Portuguese are similar to each other. She studied Chinese in college and studied abroad in Beijing, so she's basically proficient in 4 languages. And they're all used on this site. She'll be working with our program that works to educate women from all of the countries of the region in issues in trafficking. We've got these women from China, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, and after a year of studying about human trafficking and social sciences, they'll go back to their homes to initiate programs intended to educate their own communities; the dangers that exist with traffickers and the information to secure their protection. I watched Carole jump from Thai to English to Mandarin to English again and then Laos during this own seminar yesterday, it was crazy. All these women study English, some of them still on a really basic level, and some of them really struggle because they're also still learning Thai. So we now have this teacher that can jump between three different languages to explain how English works and it's GREAT.

My sister Anne-E's coming over in a little more than a week and I'm travelling with her for a week somewhere South. I can't believe how little I've seen of this country given how long I've been here. I honestly don't even know where to take her! Despite me being across the planet, I'm really bad with geography and important landmarks that you're supposed to visit when you're within its proximity. It's like when my cousins came over to visit New York and I had to call my Dad to find the exact intersection of the Empire State Building. I'm so unbelieveably geographically inept I was almost too embarassed to relay that anecdote.