Still kickin'

I bet you all are enjoying the time crunch for internet.. it makes my blogs much shorter to read. So to do a brief catch up, on Monday we went exploring near the girl's shelter. We went for a bike ride and headed back as my bike gave out on me. Then went for a walk towards the mountains and got lost so were escorted back by a wonderful Thai man who took us to COSA in his pickup. For the record, we were on the right track.. just didn't know it. Tuesday we headed up to the hill tribe village Ban Kuhn Soy where we would be teaching back health, maternal health and general healthcare. The first day in the school teaching general healthcare to ages 4 to 16 was great. The next day we were supposed to teach maternal and back health to the men and women of the village, but because of the recent rain they were all working in the fields and unable to attend. So we taught some back health to the two men there and taught nutrition to the children that came as well... not to shabby for on the spot. The next day we did a nutrition lesson at the school to all the students. While we were in the village, we got to do some trekking nearby and were fortunate enough to have attracted a few leeches as well. The wonderful Micky came to the rescue though with some gunpowder solution that got them off and killed them. Micky is the founder of the girl's shelter COSA and an incredible guy. He has some of the coolest stories. After Ban Kuhn Soy, we went to another village not too far from there to check up on two girls in that village and stayed at the village leader's house. Today and tomorrow are our days off from the program. We did a 'cultural experience' today by taking a Thai massage class! I no longer suck at massages, hopefully. It was a lot of fun and our teachers were so great. Tomorrow I am undecided on what to do. In a moment I am going to look into some programs for mountain biking, ATV tours and zipline tours to go check out and take up my morning. We head back to COSA tomorrow evening then will do some lessons in the school near there as well. Saturday we go to another hill tribe village with some nurses from a partner clinic and get to do some shadowing there for a few days. The time is going by entirely too fast.. only two weeks left (my family probably disagrees).
Love
K