| Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| Happiest Place on Earth/Thailand! |
 Beautiful Baan Unrak, in Sangkhlaburi town, Thailand! After leaving Cambodia in a rush of sangria and Japanese food, and going alone across the border on a long long bus ride to BKK, and running around for a few crazy days at MBK Shopping Wonderland, I made it home to BU on a long long minibus ride. This was trip #3, but my first one without other Go-MAD buddies. It was more chill, much more chilly, more lonely, but still nice to visit the kids and hang out in town. It rained every day in August this year, and the sticky red mud ruined my pedicure.
 Smile! Most of the kids are Burmese refugees, but some are Karen or Mon tribal minorities. I should have done the sketchy border crossing trip last December! The Myanmar border, only a few kilometres away, is locked down now. Unsurprisingly enough.
 Highlight: three mornings in the nursery! It wasn't finished during our last Christmas trip, but we devoted some of our fundraising towards it, and a university group from Japan painted and decked out the room with books and toys. I also met the uber-hippy volunteers, and ran into Gillian from IHS, randomly working in Burmese refugee camps for the summer. I didn't make it out of my P Guesthouse bed and out into the cold rain in time for yoga, but ate my weight in BU cafe curries and cheezy bread and vegan chocochip cookies, and even managed to do my statistics exam at the one internet spot in town! No international phones in sight, but Sangkhlaburi is now wired.
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