Posted by Jess Lay
Asia culture is mainly surrounded by Confucian philosophy. The first thing in is being filial, which when you experienced during your journey you will see that Asian are family orientated. They have close family ties which they try to provide a better living for their family even at certain...
Posted by Jeffrey Mich
tl;dr Answer the numbered questions to help us build better educational games I volunteered at Isara about 2 years ago during my gap year between high school and college. As I’m sure I don’ have to tell you any of you (but I’ll reiterate just for kicks) Isara is an amazing place t...
Posted by Sydney Schmidt
I had a very busy first week here at ISARA! Teacher Dave picked Jess and I up bright and early on Monday morning to attend classes at his school. I was impressed by how well some of the younger students in particular were able to speak English, and we spent some time reading and talking ...
Posted by Diego Di Gionantonio
Hello everybody! I am going to tell you a little bit about what are we doing in the government school of Banguat, in Thabo province. In case you don't know this small beautiful part of the world, let me tell you it's a village surrounded by green rice fields that grow higher everyday and it's the pe...
Posted by Ryan Sherry
Yesterday was a very successful day at the Isara Learning Centre. I visited the recycling centre with Max, a fellow volunteer to assess the damage of those who have been dumping garbage on the property. Wearing my pink kitchen gloves and Vietnamese hat we dove into our work, not literally because it...
Posted by Max Keck
A few days ago my mother called me. Next to all the others questions she had about a country that a few years ago she considered being to dangerous to travel to (not to mention cambodia, lao and vietnam), she also wanted to know what the weather is like. Well we have been around SOA a few month now ...
Posted by Ryan Sherry
Two months on the road with past volunteers in Cambodia, I am pleased to say I have returned to Nong Khai! Stepping off the bus I felt euphoric as I brushed past shouting tuk tuk drivers, for once I knew where I was going and didn't need a ride. The sun was setting over the buildings as I smiled to ...
Posted by Anna Jones
After observing lessons for a few days, I taught my first class alone yesterday. And let me tell you it was exhiliterating and a tid bit scary all at the same time. I taught reading comprehension to the 6A students, the most advanced students at Isara. The class started by responding to the journal ...
Posted by Tara Lange
Tonight, after dinner, we all sat together in the Isara common room and touched on a myriad of different topics. One of the most wonderful things about this traveling experience of mine, and this Isara volunteer oasis, is that we volunteers come from all over the world, and we are all multi-faceted ...
Posted by Leon Haendel
Hi, my name is Leon Haendel and i spend the time from November to December at the primary school "Nadonmay", which is located in the Nakhon Phanom Province in the North-East of Thailand. My first adventure started with the ride to Renu Nakhon. Renu Nakhon is a small town near Tha Phanom about five ...
