Chaa Thai is a podcast spilling the tea on Peace Corps volunteer life in Thailand! Each episode, hosts Dano Nissen and Morgan Shupsky will interview a current Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand and do a deep dive on their experience at their host site. The tea is that there are as many examples of what service is like for a volunteer in Thailand as there are volunteers — join us as we get a taste!

On our inaugural episode, we met with Kayla Kawalec who previously served with Peace Corps Thailand as a part of Youth in Development group 132 but was evacuated after only 10 weeks due to COVID. She is now serving again as a 134 YinD in the northern region of Thailand.

We talked to Kayla about what they’re eating up there in the north, what’s up with the Thai language dialects, what living with a host family is like, and if it’s actually as difficult as it seems to learn a new language in 10 weeks (spoiler alert: the answer is yes).

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