Recently, I traveled to Thailand and visited a refugee camp on the border between Thailand and Burma (Myanmar). The main event of the day was a visit to the opening ceremony of an English instruction program. See blog part one, two, and pictures for more. Teatime at Umphium is a delicious affair, beyond price. Sitting at a crude, well-constructed wooden table, escaping the rain and mud, Burmese tea, red tea [...]

For the past two weeks, I have been travelling in Thailand, and here is an excerpt from my writings on a refugee camp that I visited on the border between Thailand and Burma (Myanmar). Resting on the mist-shrouded hills, temporarily, permanently, Umphium is a sprawl of Burmese people, a spread of thick thatch, a sprinkling of roads, veins of mud paths, beating with the slow rhythm of a waiting life. This refugee [...]