Sabaya Day Spa and Jungle Resort Cha-am

... boxing in Thailand ( I saw an exhibition match at a Thai food festival in Battersea Park). The Bangkok venue is the size of Wembley arena and takes at least an hour to return from - a bit like seeing a west end show while living in Stoketonia. Hua Hin stadium was much more intimate. We shared a table with 3 guys from Calgary ...

... Rebecca. I get on really well with both of them so it was a good day. It's amazing how much the people you work with can impact your enjoyment of the work, regardless of what you're doing! We did a lot of painting in the bear enclosures, which was hard work in the hot sun. For enrichment we gave the 'school bears' tyres with chunks of fruit inside. It seemed to keep them quite well occupied. I spent this evening drinking with Sally, my friend from ...

... watch and I can have a go at home. The pineapple cost 80 baht and I had a 100 baht note out. She was well ahead of me because before I could suggest topping up with some 20 baht worth of bananas, they were already in a bag with a selection of other fruit. We can now recognise most fruits that Tescos will have on offer and not be afraid to buy. We also bought a polystyrene Bi-plane kite for Copter ( Mams son ). It was ...

... able to survive in the wild. So, we put them here. I'm glad this place exists. I hate, hate hate seeing all the animals in cages, especially when they look so bored, but what's better, at this juncture? At least they're safe and we do try to give them good lives. And sometimes some of the macaques get to go move out to live in these big fields. They're still enclosed, but the fields are huge. And if the gibbon are well suited, they get to go live on one of the 8 ...

... of poop and algae, on your hands and knees scrubbing a cement pool that never gets completely clean. Sometimes you see the difference that your sweat and hard work makes, and it looks clean for about an hour after, and that's cool. I've done 3 pools so far, I think. So many of the animals here have great rescue stories, and I heard almost all of them on my first day, when I took the tour, but there are so many animals ...

... through the predawn twilight squished into the back of a pick-up all trying to get comfortable enough to catch another few minutes shut eye - no chance for me as i was stuck at the end with the drivers kids who i didn't know well enough to push over! It was probably the first time any of us had actually felt cold in weeks. We stopped again after an hour or so at a petrol station to discuss tactics on how to position the 2 or 3 kids whose papers may not ...

... with Lauren, Jonathan, Amy, Christine, Mac, and myself. We camped out and took a truck ride at 5:30 in the morning to like the highest point in the whole park. Didnt get to see any elephants but we did see monkeys so that was fun. It was a great adventure with a good group of people.

... her school in Panama, one girl is finishing up teaching 3 years in Thailand, one is thinking of moving to the US, and so forth. It was nice. I was going before it was the end of my trip and I thought it would be nice to do a bit of reflection. The next days consisted of waking up at 4, morning thoughts, yoga, talk, mediation, breakfast, break, 2 talk, walking meditation, meditation, lunch, break, talk, meditation, walking ...

... the real world where people work for a living, try to get ahead in life, and try very hard to stay alive as long as possible no matter what. i am trying to help billy as i had tried to help mark and leroy but it is not easy to deal with the simple finality of "**** off and leave me alone". i am not sure that losing the will to live is more insane than the insane desire to stay alive at all cost.

... in the newspaper to try and go back to his life the pure and simple way that it was before she had come into it. More time passes and she has not called. He promises himself that he will not call her. Mid morning, with still no call, he breaks his own promise and calls her on the pretext that he just wants to know that she is ok, but she does not answer. He is furious. He paces the floor. He tries denial again and again but he begins to break down. He calls her again and then ...