The Christmas lessons have started. The kids in Anuban primary were ecstatic when they were told they were going to make Christmas cards. Though, many of them didn't look all that Christmassy. I taught the Cumphai kids the basic Christmas vocab like stocking, snowman and Christmas tree. Sang jungle bells with the anuban primary kids today which they already kind of new already. Though whenever they got to the last line, the wold just mumble the word and then shou...

so last last weekend, was the kings birthday. we got quickly dressed up in the full thai gear again and taken to the ceremony. the whole tessoban playing field was surrounded by a boarder of kind of stalls with food and drink. at the top was a giant picture of the king. you had to go up and give hime these ornaments. but had to bow and things, it was all very formal. so this is what we did. we walked behind the mayor and when we did our thing, the whole tessoban ...

So last Monday, we had a few issues with our visa. The day before our initial three month visa ran out, our boss man, Pinuit, thought we should be doing something about our visa. after about 30 minutes of rummaging around he went "who robber my documents" meaning that he had lost all our documents. So he spent almost two hours re photocopying passports and things while we sat and did not a lot. Then, we went off to Amnat to the immigration office. The o...

So last Monday, we had a few issues with our visa. The day before our initial three month visa ran out, our boss man, Pinuit, thought we should be doing something about our visa. after about 30 minutes of rummaging around he went "who robber my documents" meaning that he had lost all our documents. So he spent almost two hours re photocopying passports and things while we sat and did not a lot. Then, we went off to Amnat to the immigration office. The o...

So, another week or so in thailand and still no teaching. The primary school have some kind of inspection on Friday so they have spent the WHOLE week preparing the school and making it look pretty. They have redone the displays, cut the grass, sweeped the paths, but ribbons up everywhere. Its amazing how much effort they put in. However, it also means that there was not a spot of teaching going on, so maybe next week. I'mgutted because i had planned a whole lesso...