Taken at the start of the long, tough hike back from the border with Burma yesterday.
Month: November 2012
28.11.12
Today, the majority of my students and I hiked for three hours to the river that separates Thailand from Burma. We met at 5am, and set off before 6, arriving just as the sun started to break through the morning clouds. The far side of the river is Burma, the near side is Thailand.
This place – the first place we arrived at – we decided to leave because we could see the DKBA (Democratic Karen Buddhist Army) stationed across the river.
27.11.12
The inside of a fairly typical (if on the nicer side) refugee bamboo house.
One of my students invited me to dinner and cooked some incredible food.
26.11.12
Clearly I didn’t take this today, but I’ve just found time to edit quite a few of my photos from Vienna in June. It’s such a pity I chopped the top of the light off.
25.11.12
24.11.12
Cleaning the solar panels
23.11.12
I’ve actually been really busy over the last week, so this is a picture I took a couple of weekends ago.
22.11.12
Playing badminton on the finished court.
My sports photography is never going to be good – I don’t enjoy missing the main points in a match because I’ve got my face hidden behind a lens!
21.11.12
First year students working hard to lengthen the size of the new badminton court.
20.11.12
On Sunday, the old volunteer and her friend visited and we went to a wedding of one of our teachers. The couple are in beautiful traditional Karen dress.
19.11.12
On the day where Barack Obama made world history by visiting Burma, life here carries on as normal…
A refugee’s back yard
18.11.12
Not so shy.
Refugee’s aren’t allowed motorbikes but there are a fair few here.
17.11.12
16.11.12
What do you think? Would the sunrise itself have been better?
15.11.12
14.11.12
What sort of stupid rat decides soap is the tastiest thing to eat?
13.11.12
12.11.12
11.11.12
A restaurant within the camp
10.11.12
Refugees aren’t allowed an income at all. Nevertheless, there’s a large market with an abundance of fresh produce, and I’ve finally found the fields where some of the crops are grown.
09.11.12
An hour and a half hike brought me to the other end of camp with a view back. I live at the bottom of the steep cliff on the right.
08.11.12
I took this a couple of weeks ago on my visa run to Myawaddy, Myanmar. Our visit coincided with October’s full moon.
07.11.12
The kitchen we sometimes ‘borrow’ to cook our food. The large bags on the right are the ration rice, and it’s cooked on the fire pits you can see. There’s a large water tank on the far left which is filled from a hosepipe and is used to wash up the dishes.
06.11.12
A fantastic present from my principal’s wife – my first ever dragon fruit!
05.11.12
One of the students who volunteered to cook for me every day. She’s only 18 but she’s like my mother here!
It’s interesting to look back at the pictures I’ve taken this year, and how the style has developed and changed depending on where I’ve been living and what I’ve been doing. I’ve only really started taking pictures of people in the last six weeks. What do you think?
04.11.12
My bedroom – I even have a pink mosquito net and a rat that runs along the beam at the top of the window every night!
03.11.12
One of my students posing behind the game he’d created for the school’s fun fair. The tins he used are the empty tins of condensed milk used to make tea.
02.10.12
01.11.12
A volunteer teacher leans against the door frame
Our world. My lens 