Hello from this cool place called You Sabai . We came here last Monday for the cooking course -which lasted for three days -but i was ill and didn't do any cooking so we're still here. my chest was a bit bad (a nice doctor who was also doing the course gave me some oil of oregano which seemed to work really well) but really that fever thing i had came back and wouldn't shift. i'm feeling much better now though and am doing the cooking course this week instead.

this is a good place to rest though as you can just chill at the cafe (the cafe is really cool and provides a place to hang out for the peeps doing the earthen building course down the road or rather track(which is where i'm emailing from, i'm tempted to come back and do the course next year-earthen houses are so much better than normal houses-why do we all pay squillions of pounds for houses when we could build our own much cheaper and more sustainably?))

Or if you don't want to be sociable you can sleep in a bamboo hut all afternoon which captures the little breeze there is (as long as no one else is in it).

We're living in an earthen house which is pretty cool and yesterday i did our washing by stamping on it in a bucket which worked surprisingly well-the cleanest clothes i've had for ages.

We've met lots of nice people and been swimming in some nearby lakes. There are lots of rice paddies around you have to walk through them to get to the little village. so pretty cool and am feeling much better-physically and mentally. there are lots of spiritual books here so i'm trying to recapture my ki positiveness. currently i'm learning about water crystals and how they respond to words and pictures...