Monday - Teaching

Monday and first day of teaching at local school of 115 pupils. The 4 of us stayed together as I'm the only one with any experience (you got to laugh). We taught class 6 (11 year olds) for 1 hour and then class 2/3 (7 year olds) for another hour. AFter that it was lunch at 11.30 with enough food to feed the 5000 and then an early finish as it's the Queens birthday on Tuesday and they need to get ready for celebrations. Before we left the principal asked if we'd like to see a DVD of the King's 60th anniversary and we politely said 'Yes' - BIG mistake - 2 hours later having watched the king meet foreign dignatories and then looked at 100 boats being majestically rowedup the river and the DVD was all in Thai, it was enough so when he said ;Have you seen enough' we all raced for the door.
To top it all - we discovered that there is no school on Tuesday (as it's the Queen's birthday) and none on Wednesday as there's a teachers 'in service' so of the 5 days of teaching we'll only get to teach 3.
Anyway we asked to go to the orphanage for the 2 days - it has nearly 200 children who sleep in rooms - 70 to each and after the volunteers go home and the monks retire, there is no supervision.
That's where I've been today and we were all pleasantly surprised to find that the children are well dressed, well fed and really clean. We played games with them all day and it was a great experience though I'm fair knackered now.
We'll be there again tomorrow but I'm not sure when I'll next get to the internet.

We go to Koh Samet on Sunday but I'll try and update the blog before then

Love to all

Sue xxxx