Riding in Style

Today we hitched two rides in order to get all the way to the school. Our second ride was provided courtesy of Thailand's Head of State for the Prime Minister's Office. This man, whose name I can't recall, drives down to the Phang Nga area once a month in order to do city planning for this part of southern Thailand. His English was not that great, but probably the best we've heard from the non-Aiesecer locals. He took us about 10 minutes past his turnoff to the school- a very kind and friendly man.

We finished reviewing in all of the classes today, so tonight we will begin creating our own lesson plans. If anyone has good ideas for games that would be fun and easy to play with the kids, please feel free to send your suggestions my way. We have reviewed some basics involving names, occupation, adjectives, numbers 1-60, silverware, weather, etc. with them.

Peter, a 21 year old guy from Sidney, Australia, joined us today so there were four of us teaching each class. I think we'll be figuring out a way to break ourselves up into pairs and teach after the semester break, which begins October 6th and ends around October 20th.

Ghetto Baby made me laugh aloud in one of the classes today. We usually have all kinds of kids running in and out of our classes after lunch, which is obviously distracting, so we try to send them away. Well, in our last class today there was a boy poking his head in and Ghetto Baby turned and gave him a thug glance- cracked me up.