It's a cool, early, December evening here in Chiang Mai. A lot has occurred in the past few weeks. There were a lot of protests against the government recently. Those protests and demonstrations are now over. All parties seem to be pleased with the outcome of things and life has returned back to normal. Although Thailand made some big headlines in the past few weeks with the protests and such, very few people were hurt in the demonstrations. When the protesters left the airports, the clean-up crews went in and found that the airports were clean and not damaged. It took only a few hours for airport staff to get the airport in condition to start receiving flights again. I suppose these large scale demonstrations, that ended so peacefully and with so little damage is a testament to the Thai philosophy on life.
Another big event for us here in Chiang Mai, was that Mike Ambroselli completed his volunteer service last week. This is a big mile maker for us, as Mike was our first volunteer to complete the longest amount of service we offer (6 full months)! Mike was in the Teaching Monks Project and did an amazing amount while here in Chiang Mai. We will truly miss Mike's presence in the living room of the Volunteer House, watching the Sopranos. You can view Mike's testimonial on our "Volunteer Stories" page of our website. Good Luck Mike!
-Todd