I thought I should post this as I am finding out that the semester is winding down for many students and teachers in the US. We are on the precipice of summer vacation here in Thailand. Two weeks left! Woohoo! COdie and I have plans to head out to Nepal for a month to hang with sherpas and walk a lot. I mean wakl until your feet start to cry out "Please stop abusing me" but you still keep walking.....practically a month of walking and eating daal. We're totally psyched.
Life here has been filled with English testing in high school and island exploration on the weekends.
Testing in Thailand, for spoken English, consists of going out in the hall with students and having them recite a dialogue with follow up questions. You can't imagine how many times I had students order a hamburger from me with no ketchup. The best is when you can actually pull off a bit of a conversation and you feel like "Yeah, this kid could totally hang at a Mc Donalds in America" but the funniest ones are the slackers who understand nothing you are saying to them and just say "yes" to every question you ask. I guess you can't reach each of the 1200 students you teach.
As far as the aunubans (5-6 year olds) went though, it was teaching as usual.
"Do you like dinosaurs?"
"Yes I do."
Cue dinosaur impression.
Happy birthday to us! After testing we hit up Koh Phan Ngan and swam in waves to our hearts content. Sigh. Chalk up number seventy thousandth beautiful Thai sunset.
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