After our long hiatus for bpit-term and Close of Service conference, we're back with the one, the only, Teacher Nadia! Not only is Nadia a TESS volunteer, she's also a fashion icon of group 134 and a bilingual Spanish-English speaker - this is our first partially bilingual episode and surprisingly it's not Thai we're speaking.

This week, we meet Matt Bruns, a Group 134, TESS Volunteer living, teaching, and running in Isaan.Matt is a man of many talents: gardening, fitness, mechanical engineering (!), hard core meditation, and puppy raising!All that and more on this week's episode of Chaa Thai.

Morgan and Dano interview Jon Stachowicz, a Group 134, TESS Volunteer living all the way down in the South! They cover everything from Jon incorporating football into his English lessons to how a video about a toilet has taken over all of our classes...

This week our guest on Chaa Thai is the coach of one of Thailand's most accomplished competitive "Scrabble" teams (and, fittingly, the creator of Sticky Rice's "What We're Reading" column) - Group 134, TESS Volunteer, Bianca Palese!

This week we've got Youth in Development volunteer, Cloé Fortier-King, on to talk about what it's like to work in a Thai local government office - awkward photo ops. and all.

This week we've got Youth in Development volunteer, Will Fausey, coming to us from the hottest party site in Thailand, Ubon Ratchathani!

This week Group 135 is attending their Reconnect conference after spending the last three months at their permanent sites. We talked to one of them, Michael, about how he's been adjusting to life at his site in Chiang Mai!https://open.spotify.com/episode/3PyeNH4hgO8hRzPPhh1UkM?si=EkS2_-UeQ--ZzAHbjE3-ag

Back from the Thai summer break, we bring you Kaleb! A former 132 volunteer evacuated during Covid, Kaleb waited three years to return to Thailand as a TESS volunteer.https://open.spotify.com/episode/2JHGtZgH2b7K8EaSi7KHc3?si=_VFeajaVSRChAFpgp_6TXg

We're catching up on the latest two episodes of Chaa Thai hearing from Peace Corps parents and TESS volunteer, Bradford Reszel!https://open.spotify.com/episode/1lvBvG6brQI0FRswdhya82

Group 134 Youth in Development volunteer, Raynna Jackson, stars on the pod this week!Happy swearing-in anniversary group 134 and happy April 1st everybody ;)https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ynVaRDqEeV6LIyjaL3TWt?si=jXRKDS8zQtWr6O4tmp2qbQ

Peace Corps Thailand Group 135 trainees swear in as official volunteers today! We're sharing the latest episode of Chaa Thai featuring a member of the cohort.To catch up with all the tea you've missed you can find past episodes on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.https://open.spotify.com/episode/0RvGPpKdAsD09KOUWlktO4?si=YNnmt2GwQKuLmmSPn3JGFw

It only took 10 weeks, but in this episode Dano and Morgan finally get to talk about their own lives, including their funny stories, misconceptions about being a PCV, and their hardest parts of service thus far.https://open.spotify.com/episode/0RvGPpKdAsD09KOUWlktO4?si=YNnmt2GwQKuLmmSPn3JGFw

It only took 10 weeks, but in this episode Dano and Morgan finally get to talk about their own lives, including their funny stories, misconceptions about being a PCV, and their hardest parts of service thus far.https://open.spotify.com/episode/0RvGPpKdAsD09KOUWlktO4?si=YNnmt2GwQKuLmmSPn3JGFw

It only took 10 weeks, but in this episode Dano and Morgan finally get to talk about their own lives, including their funny stories, misconceptions about being a PCV, and their hardest parts of service thus far.https://open.spotify.com/episode/0RvGPpKdAsD09KOUWlktO4?si=YNnmt2GwQKuLmmSPn3JGFw