It's been a while, I know. The last couple of weeks have been a blur to be honest. With school still on holiday we had plenty of free time to explore and decided to visit Sally and Ocean at Kutchum. This meant travelling almost 4 hours, taking 3 different buses/song thaews and costing all of £3... Travel is so cheap it's ridiculous. We then got to see their project and meet their hosts which was so fun. Also... we tried the long awaited and desired strawberry fanta and vodka. It was lush. Visiting other volunteers has been getting us through these few weeks where school has been on holiday and we haven't met many locals yet.
School then started and we were thrown into our first lesson with 2 minutes warning. We were leaving for Chiang Mai 3 days later so we weren't given our own classes, just filling in for other teachers so we got to teach as a 3. We ended up asking 16 year old to say 'My name is' because we were completely at a loss for what to do but that was fine. They like colouring too and they're so talented so we get them to draw a lot. Thai classrooms are so different from English ones, the students all start off well behaved saying in unison "Good morning teacher, how are you today?" but then they sit down and start talking over you... It's very stereotypical the girls are well behaved and listen and the boys well... don't. At all. They try to take advantage over our lack of Thai a lot but on the whole they end up doing the work. Well they do the work when we stand next to them and point and say work 50 times... it'll get better I hope.
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| Mr Subdirector wanted a photo! |
The next night we had our welcoming ceremony with all the teachers. We were really intrigued about this but it turned out to be one of the best nights! Firstly, we sat down whilst teachers came up to us with string and tied to our wrists saying, "for good luck," "Thai tradition," "you so beautiful," "i love youuuuuu!" Then we had some food, and then we stood on the stage with several other new student teachers and whilst Mr. Director spoke in Thai, a lot. There were several photos taken. There are always several photos taken. We were given some presents and there were more photos. We were then told to come off the stage.. and then back on the stage. Then there were more photos. Then there was more Thai speaking........ we weren't sure what was going on. To be honest, we never are sure. But then the real fun began, we were asked to go dance and because all the other teachers were drinking (we're not allowed too) they were full on dancing... like 3 teachers at the front whilst everyone else were sat at their tables eating and drinking. We just went with it and copied their dance moves (they were so stereotypical 16 year old dance moves). Mr Subdirector is our new favourite person. His dancing was so funny and then he wanted so many photos with us and was so drunk and so happy. He came up to us at several times and just said "I love you, I love you, I love you, do you love me tooooo?" I think it's safe to say we have all fallen in love with Mr. Subdirector! Later that night we just heard outside our house "I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUU" hahaha. What. A. Man.
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| Dancing with the teachers! |
There is still so much more to write but this post is getting long so I'll write another post soon with the rest ! I'll be more punctual with my blog posts when I get my own laptop back.... whenever in the world that will be. #prayforappley
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| Smile everyone! |
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