Today I went with a small team of Sparkles to Star Flower, a day centre for children with special needs. All of these are kids of migrant workers – that is, Burmese and Karen people who are [...]
Last night, as soon as we arrived, the children requested to sing to us. Normally, we are busy setting up for the fire show immediately so we can start as soon as darkness is upon us. This time, [...]
More than half our time has passed now and I am currently enjoying with passion my day off. We have been working our little bootys off to spread the bliss. Almost every day we have made visits to [...]
I lie here on my bed, eyes sore because I’m so tired…. or was it the dust? … or the fumes from the fuel? either way, what a beautiful day. Today we visited New Day school, and i [...]
We were shocked and honoured to be invited into a huge temple in one of the schools and told we could do our day show and hulahooping workshop in front of a giant buddha! He looked most pleased [...]
Samui Mala is a small volunteer organisation on Koh Samui, and we have been one of Spark! Circus’ supporters from way back, since Andrea volunteered to perform for us at our first festival [...]
I am exhausted, thrilled, blown away and happy as a clam. The last two days the team has split in half to accomodate more school play days and to give half the team a day off on each day. It just [...]
Today we visited the Mai Tao clinic. A hospital which has been set up to help people who would normally die or suffer horrifically from their ailments. Land mine victims, amputees. Road Traffic [...]