Recently the word ‘home’ has been used a lot, in so many different ways. We got news that some of the children would be moving to different orphanages for their new ‘homes’ in the coming month, so the word has been used in discussions between staff and the children have overheard. Two of the girls…
Mr C and Mr B are both reaching the age when they are old enough to leave Bann Feung Fah. They will move to the older boys’ home in September. So when I was asked which child I wanted to take on the orphanage’s big beach trip for the day to Cha-Am, I was…
This year we didn’t do the annual Disney on Ice trip for 12 children, because the cost of the disability seating has been restricted to the higher ticket prices. It was a shame and clear that the children love it, because when the advert came on the TV many would look at me when I…
Liz was one of the Huahin holiday volunteers and she supported Mr G on the holiday last August. See HUAHIN HOLIDAY 2018 for details. As a teacher, her school break comes right in the middle of the hot season in Thailand, but even so, she was still keen to return and help for that time….
Thailand is experiencing a really, really hot season this year, which is that bit harder to bear as for the last two years I’ve been in the UK at this time. Those who came on study tours with 1Step2Step previously keep mentioning that they are missing the cool UK weather. Conversation is all about the…
In a week of lots of extra requests and tasks, I want to tell you about today, which was possibly one of the busiest days this year. However, I was blessed to have had a volunteer arrive for the week. Liz, who was formerly a volunteer for the Huahin holiday last August and who looked…
At the beginning of this week, I travelled with girls from one of the homes on an overnight trip they are running for the girls with cerebral palsy. I got the chance to make sure Miss W got to go by being her carer. She was one of my original children back in the early…
Today the people from the Department that issue my visa paper work came by again to sign off that they saw me working. This should happen once a year, but as you’ll have seen in a previous blog ( Back on the plastic chairs of immigration) my passport needed to be renewed, so I was only…
After a month in a cast which covered both legs with two bars connecting them, Miss K was fed up. I was too, with all the bruises I got from knocking on the bars when carrying her. The most uncomfortable one was on the tip of my knee, so kneeling (which I do most of…
Today I was involved in a moment that left me wondering, “Is compassion innate and built into our being or learnt?” It’s a standard nature versus nurture question. I hear you all thinking, “Oooh, what could have made Nicola go all philosopher on us?” Well let me tell you. On the ward where I work…