We have been apartment hunting for 3 days now, we have been all over Hat Yai, walking in the scorching heat, getting lost, spending 100's of baht on tuk tuks, finding more grim apartments, finding ridiculous nice apartments, wanting nice apartments, coming very close to getting the very ridiculously nice apartments, then realising we can't afford deposits on said apartments, going back to first debated apartments, and then settling for apartments we have been liv...

Today was SO fun. We turn up at Jungle school, played silly games with all the kids to break time (1 hour). Then we were told by Nicky that we were now leaving and being taken to the festival at the temple as a treat! We were all rounded up around a thai buffet and told to dig in and I had THE most delicious thai salad and noodles (I possibly like thai food again now) for free!!! On the way to get my second helping I tried to strike up a conversation with a few ...

It's been a funny week working in the jungle school with Mr. Bum Bum the director. And today it happens to be another Thai holiday..woo..so we have the day off!! We've managed to blag having kindergarden all week so far, so basically it's been me, Rhi, Jo and Kylie playing games with them everyday whilst they climb all over us like monkeys. All of the kiddies are absolutely adorable, apart from one we've nicknamed the devil child. Who definitely looks like the c...

Today, we went on an adventure to the waterfall at a huuuuuge national park about a half an hour drive outside of Hat Yai. Kwan (one of the thai girls who works for Teacha Language School) organised us songtels to take us there, once there she ended up having a big argument with the men at the front desk because they were trying to charge us 200baht because we were farang and for locals its free. In the end we managed to get in for 100 baht, Kwan was still highly...

So we started our actual teacher practise in schools this week and it's been interesting to say the least. Who ever made up the phrase 'those that can't teach' most definitely had never taught, and even more obviously have never tried teaching 7-11 year old Thai children. Monday... we were blissfully unaware of what we had in store when told we were teaching kids at an English camp, other than to prepare a half an hour activity each. We turn up to a hall of 95 c...