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Description
The school is located in the northern area of Amphoe Samoeng in a small village called Baan Pa Lan. The closest major city, Chiang Mai, is around 1 hour from here. The area is quite remote and doesn’t have the creature comforts of a big city, but there are a couple of restaurants, a small grocery store and a quaint little night market every Thursday.
We have just over 100 students here, the ages range from 3 up to 12 years old.
While we are a government school, Our curriculum is based on the Thai school curriculum. For the most part, the lessons are conducted in small groups where students can play an active role in the teaching process.
We wish the best for our students and understand the importance of the English language. Therefore, we would like to thank everyone who has sacrificed their time to help our school and exchange Thai culture with us.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Interests
Dancing
Water sports
Outdoor activities
Hiking
Cycling
Beach
Mountain
Yoga / Wellness
Nature
Camping
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
- You will learn about the traditional way of living of Thai people. How people treat each other with respect even from different cultures and religion. Samoeng looks like Thailand 10 years ago.
- See how hill tribe people grow special crops in order to escape poverty (strawberries, coffee, avocado, etc.) and bring it to the market.
- Share good moments with the students and the teachers who are very exited to spent time with foreigners.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We need someone who is willing to teach English to kids 3-12 years old. You can be native or not, it does not matter. Your also welcome if English is your second language.
We invite you to take part in many different activities and present your personal skills.(maintenance, woodcraft, programming, cooking, welding, and any technical project).
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Thai: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
For your accommodation, you get a room in a traditional wooden house. The volunteer house is directly near school. The room is fully furnished, you just need to bring a towel and your personal hygiene products with you.
There is a communal kitchen within this facility that you can use to prepare breakfast and lunch. It is fit with an oven, waffle maker, toaster, stove, fridge and various baking utensils. If you like baking, we have you covered (for teaching kids only); you can bake to your heart's content. We will cover the costs of the lunch at the canteen and dinner at the restaurant, but you will have to take care the breakfast for yourself. If you would like to make your own meal you have to buy ingredients for yourself at the groceries store nearby village.
The volunteers will share lunch with the teachers and students at school.
Transportation:
There is only the yellow bus that comes to our village at 6.00 am. and if you want to go back to Chiang Mai, there is the yellow bus at 7 am- 13.00 pm. No yellow bus on Sunday.
What else ...
Near our school, there is a beautiful cave for tourists to visit. In addition, our school is close to a market and convenience stores, a hospital, and a police station. The local people are kind and friendly, and the environment is safe.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
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Teacher Meow is the best host, always caring for us. Also Kru King made sure we had food and we felt comfortable in the teachers house, in front of the school. Here we had our kitchen and room and it was perfect.
Every morning and afternoon we were with the… read more
This was my first Workaway and I am grateful to have had the chance to discover this family, this village, these children. Living their lives and discovering this world was an unforgettable experience.
Thank you with all my heart to all the wonderful people who made… read more
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Teacher Meow is the best host, always caring for us. Also Kru King made sure we had food and we felt comfortable in the teachers house, in front of the school. Here we had our kitchen and room and it was perfect.
Every morning and afternoon we were with the… read more
This was my first Workaway and I am grateful to have had the chance to discover this family, this village, these children. Living their lives and discovering this world was an unforgettable experience.
Thank you with all my heart to all the wonderful people who made… read more
First of all, I have to say that I am in a really huge delay writing this review now, since I was in the school between December and February, but better now than never, I guess (sorry Hehe).
This was my first workaway experience and it could not be better, sincerely... I am still thinking of them daily.
I stayed for around two… read more
Thank you so much for imparting English knowledge and providing fun activities for our students. You are a lovely volunteer teacher and are a lot of fun to teach. We here love you and want you to come back. If there is a chance, we would like you to come back and give us a good experience like in the past. We always welcome you.… read more
It has been like living in a big family. Everyone has taken care of me and other volunteers also for little things.
I enjoyed my stay also if I'd like to be more helpful.
A special thanks for Kru Meow and her family 🤍
Thank you for everything
I stayed for three weeks in the school and it was simply amazing! I felt part of a family and part of the community too.
I highly recommend it if you wanna fully live in Thai culture!
The kids and teachers were really adorable and I'm missing all of… read more
The kids will remember you when they will make pizzas… read more
The town itself is kind of small but saying that… read more
Vincent and Meau are doing such a good job in this school and I'm very glad that I was able to join their work for 3 weeks. I stayed for 1,5 weeks in a thai family (beautiful experience, thank you Meau) and the other 1,5 weeks in the school with the other teachers.
I learned a lot about the Thai culture and I will… read more
I had a great experience teaching the children in kindergarten and primary 1 and 2.
At first it was a bit of a search what to teach and where to start because there were not many volunteers before me and I did not know the English level of the children.
After some time I got the hang of it and I was… read more
