I want to tell you about a school we went to in Bali.  It is called The green school and it is all made out of bamboo. It is the largest bamboo building in the world.  It is so beautiful. Everything in the entire school is made out of bamboo. The class rooms have no walls but...

Today mom and I went to this jewellery making class. It was so much fun. We got to make bracelets, necklaces, earrings and lots of other things to. When we got there we had to pick out 1 thing that we wanted to make. I picked a ring. It was cool how I made it because I started...

Today I am going to tell you about a wood carving class I did in Ubud, Bali. First of all what I am making is going to be a Balinese Dream Mask, which is a mask of a face that morphs into something related to nature and it has magical qualities. The class started at 3pm so we...

One of the best parts about travelling in Southeast Asia is the amazing prices on flights. We flew Air Asia from Surat Thani in the South of Thailand to Bangkok for only about $25 each! This is ‘no frills’ travel – but definitely not much different than what we get on...

Today I am going to tell you about our Thai cooking class ………… So it started off by them picking us up at our condo in a Sangtow, which is a small truck with a top and no back. On the way to the market we picked up four more people. We arrived at the...

We are in Thailand right now and we are going to visit a hill tribe school. Their school was high up in the mountains. It was a 10 kilometre road to get up there and we were on a tiny tiny little road. They were getting homework checked by their teacher when we got there. Kai and...

Flying into Singapore Changi airport was like arriving at Disney World! Our overnight here at the airport before our next day flight to Thailand was a breeze compared to a few of the airports that we’ve stayed in the past (like Christchurch!). At the last minute before going...

Half way into our travels around the world, we’ve experienced and learned so much that it’s difficult to capture everything in words. Each subject area of our homeschooling curriculum that we originally created for Kai and Vea is outlined here with a summary of our activities and...

For our last week in Japan we activated our rail pass and decided to explore some of the rural areas of Japan after being mostly in the big cities of Osaka and Kyoto. The JR Japan Rail Pass is only offered to tourists and visitors to Japan and you need to purchase it before...