By Katie Rees and Haley Southwick Today we were all lucky enough to have the opportunity to snorkel at several different small islands surround Koh Samet. A majority of the may term trip included rural villages and service so it was nice to relax and have fun as a group. The beginning of the day…

By Maddy Todd and Mikayla Holt During our time at the Ban Yang Kaew School, we spent time with the students playing games focused on their English language skills. The children at this school surprisingly were not shy or timid towards us, considering that we are strange foreigners to them. The 5th and 6th grade…

By Payton Hudson and Cecile Murdock Video of the project here. Throughout the entirety of the trip, we donate a certain amount of money to every school we travel to in order to improve the lives and structures of the communities, which allows them to start or continue projects that work towards that improvements.  Where we…

By Missy Crittenden and Abby Paine The health assessment activity was our first interaction with the children attending Ban Yang Kaew School in Omkoi.  Most of the students participating had no previous experience with this kind of exercise but, this did not affect their ability to successfully perform the assessments.  There were ten parts to…

By Preston Kill and Kenyon Kaegi- Rittiman In this podcast, Preston and Kenyon discuss the schools we visited during the time in Kalasin. They explore issues of service and the educational situations. These rural Thai public schools are very different from the Pattana School we saw in Buriram.  

By  Dacota Shell and Meghan Villalobos While in Kalasin, Thailand, we went to a village where we participated in traditional rice planting and fishing. Before doing the actual planting of the rice we were given traditional farming outfits and upon arrival we were given special socks to protect our feet in the rice paddy and…

By Kate Abbott and Alyson Pinkelman This is the first of the 2019 trip reports. On Wednesday May 15th Westminster college visited Khok Ploung in the Buriram area. During this outing we saw a variety of different activities including traditional medicinal practices, a project through C-Bird, and silk weaving. In this episode of Thai Time,…