First photos from Myanmar!

As Claire is unable to access her blogspot directly in Myanmar, I am attempting to keep it uptodate with information and photos she manages to e-mail home. These are the first photos received this weekend (February 25th) :
a picture taken inside the very crowded bus on her 17 hour journey from Yangon to the village where she is now teaching, some of the children she is teaching pictured on the beach adjacent to her house, some Burmese women sorting the fish catch and drying the fish, and Claire delivering a loudly squealing pig to a poor family in the village. The teaching is hard but challenging and rewarding work. She is eating lots of fish, (getting to like it, almost!) rice and nice fruit such as papaya, guava, watermelon and coconut. She also plays football with the children and teaches them to swim, as well as helping the older ones to learn the recorder.
You will notice the lack of dreadlocks in the photo of Claire - she 'chickened out' of going further when the first six or seven had been created as she ran out of time before departing for Bangkok.
Antoinette (Claire's Mum)