Photo Update: Visiting Future Light Children’s Home

Here's a video and some of the best photos from last weekend's trip to visit Future Light Children's Home in Mae Sot, Thailand.

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Smiles & Trials

I am probably not in the best mood to be blogging about anything sanuk. I have contracted some sort of wimpy cold. The kind of sickness that doesn’t completely debilitate you, but keeps your nose snotty enough to be generally unattractive to present company. Doesn’t help that today I ventured out into the smoky city [...]

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What is Sanuk? Answers from Volunteers and Supporters

Thanks for your responses on National Volunteer Week. Especially to Charlotte who wrote to say that in addition to her regular volunteering gig, she went to the Bangkok airport with supplies and toys for people who had been stranded by flight cancellations in Europe. There are more people out there like Charlotte who are doing [...]

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Why Do You Volunteer?

You’ve heard from me about the background on the Sanuk My Saturday English teaching project and I was excited to announce expanding to a challenging new classroom this past February. This week, as I’m preparing to spend a few weeks in the US, you’ll hear Chris’s perspective on the project. Below we’ve combined her thoughts [...]

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Sanuk My Saturday

The ISOS English teaching Saturday program (aka Sanuk My Saturday) we began last July in a small slum on the outskirts of Bangkok has really taken off. I haven’t been very detailed in an explanation of what we do, so here’s a look at how we’re building relationships and getting kids excited about learning English [...]

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