Yesterday morning we went to a larger Karen village, which is quite far away and is in the forest.
After taking the motorbike, we still had to cross the river for 3 times. Not used to, but not difficult.
All of the houses are built with bamboo and wood, and are up from the ground, don't know the purpose of it.
Houses aren't close to each other, some of them are even on the other side of the river but still the same village.
In fact, I can't understand why the village spreads so widely. I heard that Karen people don't like to live very closely, ha.
We visited houses of some kids, and they showed us their living conditions. They've very simple tools for cooking, and use woods for fire.
We can't even find furniture in the house, they just sleep on the bamboo-made ground covered with a carpet like cloth.
They were real nice, and served us with some snacks (Ong and Mao, don't know what they're in Chinese, taste good indeed).
Sometimes some foreign tourists also visit there, as some Thai would bring them there for money. The village is a popular one.
It's not easy for them to make a living, and transportation is real real poor. How sad this is...
I got up at 6 this morning, haven't waken up so early since the first day in here. Just wanna go to and see the market.
I didn't realize that the market is just next to the hospital. It's not big but sells basically all the things you need, like food and personal products.
We tried a few snacks there, not real good, but still ok. But I couldn't find anything unique to this area there, which is a regret.
Today was quite boring. Since next Monday to Wednesday are holidays, many kids go back to their houses.
And it rained the whole day here. I was so sleepy after that, I slept in a bit.
But out of a sudden, the manager asked us if we wanna go to the kids' houses, and so we went.
It was like teacher visiting the students' homes, we went to a few nearby, taking the bike.
There were a few Korean young people volunteering in a church nearby, we didn't know this as well. But they only speak little English.
Anyway, they're from an organization called "The Pacific Asia Society", haven't heard of it before though, and they're staying for 2 weeks.
Due to language barrier and their busyness, I don't really know what they're doing here = =
2 more days to go, and I quite like here actually. It'd be great if I've chance to go back =]