By Tirapong Wajiraprechapong (BBA 15)

On the 25^th December, 2007, after we had finished loading all of the luggage and 50 volunteers on the coach, we left Thammasat at about 9:30 pm, heading to our destination, ?Mooban Na-Mai,? a village in a rural area of Lumpang.

Around 8 o?clock in the morning of the next day, we arrived at the local government office and travelled further into the hills, where the village is situated, and where our precious memory took place.

For the very first moment our pick-up trucks drove us pass by the villagers who lived alongside, we greeted them with adorable, albeit timid, smiles and said ?sawasdee khrub/jao.? After making it through the villagers, we were at the school, our command center. The work schedule was assigned to everyone. We were divided into groups with different responsibilities each day. And, personally, the most exciting part of the day was the moment we met our host families who would be provided us food, shelters, and most importantly, love, for the next 10 days.

During the first few days, working progress seemed to be very slow. Truthfully, the construction works and BBA students did not match very suitably during the first pace of the construction of new multi-purpose building, the building that would serve the villagers as the ?town hall? for meeting and the canteen for the students of the school . Dams building were struggling as well.