Ban Naam Kem has been pretty good so far. The simple village lifestyle - hunter-gatherer ish haha. and surprisingly the accommodation is clean and comfortable, kinda like home but without the aircon. All 9 of us packed into a dorm room with bunkbeds - cozy. Lol. Loads of mozzies and flies here but I havent seen anything I couldn't fend off. The weather here has been sweltering hot & humid that I sweat buckets every time I move.
Yesterday we had no camp for the kids so we kinda r&r-ed and waited for gen, belle, yj and zh to arrive. Went to the village market and i bought 2 pj pants. Headed to Bangluk (?) beach after to chill. Kinda expected the waters to be blue-r though :/ Uncle Jason toured us around the village, and brought us around the tsunami memorial sites.
And omg I had the nicest kampong durians in the evening! A helper offered us about 10 and I think we finished close to 5 or 6 durians. Sadly only aloy and I appreciated the durians, meaning that I ate a lot hehe. So sinful but so shioook.
The toughest thing here is the language barrier. It was difficult to teach the kids english in class as I couldnt even get my instructions across. Used weak attempts at sign language and weird actions to help bring my message across but idk if it worked haha. But I'm glad that even when with a language barrier, a simple wave or a smile or 'hello' is appreciated even more. I feel that smiles here are filled with a deeper meaning compared to home. Since all cultures understand the meaning of a smile, it becomes like a bridge between cultures; a universal language of sorts.
And yes I'm typing this at 7ish 8am in the morning because I wake up super early every day for some weird reason. Probably the chirping birds are my morning alarm lol
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