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The bead of sweat forms behind my left ear. It travels slowly down my neck to my collar bone. From there it picks up speed racing down my tricep, past my elbow, my forearm and then pauses on my pinkie. It sits there and time slows as gravity slowly overwhelms its attraction to my skin. And then it falls, racing down the 30 metre (90 foot) cliff I have just climbed. My arms ache. My breathing is short, sharp and shallow. I am stuck on the most difficult section of t… Read more

Water has always been the most absolute source of life, especially for me. It nourishes the earth we walk on, the plants we admire, and the fellow animals we celebrate. Rock has always been my primal source of humbling. When water and rock meet to create the imperial flow of a waterfall – I find authentic salvation. Ithaca, NY (where I attend University) was where I first discovered my sincere affection and serenity in waterfalls. However, here, in Thailand it is somet… Read more

Our time at the Migrant Learning Center in Chiang Mai has come and gone in waves of success and struggle. We have battled language barriers, blank stares, and teacher-less classrooms, but somewhere between awkward moments and Aha! moments, I believe we made a difference, Once the students and staff got used to a bunch of curious Americans (and one Australian) popping in and out of classrooms, the students really opened up to us. I think the students were happy to break u… Read more

Its now 40 hours since the group arrived in Thailand and we're settling down for the night at Lotus Village in Sukhothai, after having dinner in the night market. Today was a long train trip north; being delayed for hours by work on the railways; seeing numerous herons, cranes and ibis in the rice fields and surrounding trees, as we clackety-clacked our way across the central plains, finally driving through a dramatic thundershower to arrive at Lotus Village. As much as… Read more