Had a nice meal out on Wednesday - BBQ style again and there was a chinese theatre playing outside in the street. At first we thought there was a running commentary with the players - it was really loud and all in Thai but discovered that at the other end of the street was an auction going on - we couldn't actually hear anything of the theatre just the sound of the auction - nice costumes though!!
Last 2 days have been teaching and we've been able to plan the lessons which makes life a lot easier. The kids are so well behaved and look lovely in their uniform of the day
Monday - The teachers and children wear the Kings T shirt (well not his personal t-shirt - one with his emblem)
Tuesday - They wear pink t-shirts
Wednesday - they wear red t-shirts
Thursday - They all turn out in their scouts uniforms
Friday - is Traditional Thai dress
I have no idea when they get to wear their actual school uniform - all a mystery!!
On Friday there were educational department people from Bangkok at the school and they wanted to watch us teaching!! We were told that they'd come to the lesson after lunch but then turned up unannounced to our Grade 2 lesson - at least we had the lesson planned so we looked quite professional and I got the kids to sing a song to them too so they were well impressed !
Today is a free day and I've been trying to find an internet cafe where the speed is OK and I can upload more photos but the 1st cafe was as slow as a slow thing and this cafe is fast but I can't get the camera to connect so I'm afraid you're gonna have to wait for more photos.
Off to the Beach - Koh Samet island - tomorrow for the last week in Thailand. It's been quite hot here the last couple of days though we do get massive downpours in the evenings sometimes. I hope the beach is fine.
Signing out now for a few days
Have fun!!
Love Sue. xx
Friday, 15 August 2008
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
One more day at orphanage
Today we spent another day at the orphanage though it was very short. The drive there is about an hour by the time we pick up other volunteers.
Arrived at 10, taught for an hour at 10.30, the children then have their lunch at 11.30, we have ours at 12 and then today is a short day because a lot of the volunteers want to go swimming.
It's a very hit and miss affair this teaching as the volunteers come and go so sometimes there is no consistency - you have no idea of what's been taught. I came away today wanting to get them organised!!!!! There's such an opportunity here to make these kids lives so much better.
I decided to use the opportunity to catch up with the internet as I'll be on a beach all next week so plenty of time for swimming.
I'm off tonight for a meal with all the other volunteers which will be nice as it's very quiet at the house with only a small bar and nothing else around
Not much to say today as I updated yesterday but I'm sure I'll have some news for you soon
Love Sue. xxx
Arrived at 10, taught for an hour at 10.30, the children then have their lunch at 11.30, we have ours at 12 and then today is a short day because a lot of the volunteers want to go swimming.
It's a very hit and miss affair this teaching as the volunteers come and go so sometimes there is no consistency - you have no idea of what's been taught. I came away today wanting to get them organised!!!!! There's such an opportunity here to make these kids lives so much better.
I decided to use the opportunity to catch up with the internet as I'll be on a beach all next week so plenty of time for swimming.
I'm off tonight for a meal with all the other volunteers which will be nice as it's very quiet at the house with only a small bar and nothing else around
Not much to say today as I updated yesterday but I'm sure I'll have some news for you soon
Love Sue. xxx
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
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
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
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