More Buses and A Thai Orphanage

It was now time to set off in the overnight bus again, this time with no toilet which was a bit of a pain! This journey was no better than the first time in the overnight bus, except I actually slept for about an hour, we had more stops this time, and had to get off the bus whilst it filled up with petrol, it must have been a sight for any locals, about 3 am there’s 23 British people sat on a curb all looking half dead having just been woken up waiting for the driver to fill up the bus we weren't too impressed! Luckily there was a 7 11, so we could get some snacks but at that time in the morning you don’t feel like much at all. 

Finally we arrived after god knows how many hours in the middle of nowhere; it was like a scene out of a

Where we stayed, just need a tumble weed
and we are in a Western Film.

western film, the one road with a few shops and nothing else. We got shown where we were staying but the rooms weren't ready yet so there was a circular room with mattresses’ put out for us were we could nap until our rooms were ready, this nap was much appreciated , we were all so tired! We got into our rooms, and this time we were sharing with four people, our room turned into the gathering room for little group. It was great, we even had a toilet that had a proper flush, we were the only ones who had this! We set off to find some food, we found a little place couldn't really call it a restaurant, it was very quaint, not much about it, but the food turned out to be lovely and VERY cheap, Thailand is very cheap any way but for a portion of chicken and garlic with rice and two sprites it cost 60 Thai Baht which is about £1.24, which in England you pay that for one bottle of sprite. The communication wasn't the best as we were in a very rural area, they did not understand English very well, but they were the sweetest people and you really could not fault the food, especially for that much.

After heading back to the guest houses, we got picked up and headed to the Orphanage, now this was the part of the trip that had really sold it to me, I love kids and want to work with children so this was perfect for me, straight away they would run over to you, they couldn't speak English but you didn't need to speak the same language when you saw their smiles, that was a welcome that words would not be able to convey. We played with them, swung them round gave them piggy backs and just had the loveliest time with them, I was so glad this wasn't the only time we’d have with them, because you instantly knew it was going to be so hard to say goodbye to them. We had our tea at the orphanage then spent more time with the children afterwards too, they love phones and cameras, they would play angry birds and take as many photos of themselves as they could! They were so precious! It was time to go back to where we were staying and get some sleep before we would up early to start building.