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pictures from the Akha Youth Development Center (AYDC)

The kids went crazy for digital cameras. I think we have about 500 pictures exactly like this!

Athi - A pastor of a local village. He lived with us just so that he could learn english. He has to be the most energetic guy I've ever met in my entire life. Here he has menthol strips on his face for a headache. Demonstrating some cultural/medicinal differences.

Our Thai teachers kids. Probably some of the cutest kids ever.

One of the girls I was close to - Bebe. This isn't her given name, but the only name we ever knew her by.

This is Ampon. She and I got on very well. She would wave to me frantically until either she or I were out of sight. I would always hear her calling my name from down by her dorm. (we lived up the hill from their dorm) We would sit on the swings and sing songs and try to figure out how to translate from thai to english and back again. She knew maybe 10 words in english ... I probably knew about the same. But we somehow managed to figure it out with a lot of sign language and laughing!

posted by Amanda @ 11:04 PM