Adventures in Teaching

After a bout of food poisoning early in the week that made me miss the van to Roi Et, I took a bus up on tuesday and spent the rest of the week teaching the 4th through sixth grade class english.

I learned a few things this week, one I am not cut out to be a fourth through sixth grade teacher. The kids we were teaching were increadble. They were all extreamly polite and respectful and seemed genuinely intested to learn all that we could teach them. I just realy am not good at laying out lession plans and then there is the whole teaching side of it. I did think that the last days lessions was actualy good, but the whole experaince was taxing. Even though it was taxing it was an extlreamly rewarding experaince. It was great to be able to live in a rural village environment and to help the kids with their english.

I am down to about a month and a half left until the end of my trip. It is realy strange to think that all of this will be coming to an end so soon.

Tropical Sunburn, Oh Yah

Last week right after everyones finals ended the six of us hopped on a train and headed down to Ko Samui. And i have to say it was as close to paradise as last week could have come too. Meagan had booked us rooms or bungalows rather that were so close to the ocean they were still on the sand. The name of the place was "Beer's House Bungalows" on Lamai beach. The whole island is set up to cater to tourists but our beach wasnt the main tourist spot and it was for the most part really quiet all week long.'

I think that was my favorite part, the quiet. Being from Alabama I take quiet and still for granted. However Rangsit isn't ever normally that quiet and its really peaceful even less of the time, so this past week was extremely rejuvenating. And then there was the food. I only ate Thai food twice on the entire island it was a farang food haven. We had our choices were close to limitless Australian, German, Swedish, Indian, Italian, and yes good old American. It was amazing. The farang food was a bit more expensive ( i paid 12 dollars for one meal but it would have cost 35-50 in the states) but it really made it a true vacation.

The weather was great, we were worried about rain but it only rained once at night the entire week. I did manage to sunburn myself on the ferry ride to the island, but thankfully that was the only burn i got all week. One day we rented mountain bikes and covered about half the island checking out waterfalls. I think i ended up covering about 60k that day because my chain broke and i had to go back to the bikeshop then catch up to the others.
So in summation, last week was incredible, next week im going to Roi Et, and will be out of contact for another week. We are going to teach English, im really hoping that it all goes well. The next update probably wont be for 2 more weeks. Over and out.