Leaving Chaiyaphum and travelling. The last week of school was good fun, a surprise visit from Steph, a friend I met before starting to teach, was strange to meet her again after my semester and to listen to all her traveling experiences knowing that mine are coming next. There was no school all week due to exams and grading so I got to spend the days doing anything I wanted including colouring my hair, shopping, drinking and swimming. During the week I realise...

I know that I havent updated this blog much recently and I am sorry about that but I have not really been doing anything of great interest to all of you at home. In my mission to save money for Australia I have generally been working 6 days a week leaving pretty much dead on sunday so have just slept. The weekend of the 18th August I attended an English competition in Khorat with some of my prathom 6 students (12 years old). I have been practicing with these st...

Long weekends away There are two long weekends in august and they just so happen to be the first two weekends of August and over my birthday. So in true style I decided both should be taken full advantage off. The first weekend was spent in Koh Chang, an island in the provience of Trat. I left straight from school on wednesday and even missed the last fifteen minutes of my lesson in an eager attempt to leave Chaiyaphum and start my weekend. Arrived in Bangkok ...

Being on the bus by 7am seemed like a reasonable thing to do. I would be awake anyway at that time if I was going to school and I would be at jades much quicker. This was not to be the case. After arriving in Khon kaen pretty seemlessly at about 10am I went straight to the visa place to extent my visa. You will be glad to know I am now the owner of a whole years working visa for Thailand. That was the easy bit. The next part of the day went down hill fast. Thinki...

I promised I would write on this blog more often so here I am. Last weekend was spent in Bangkok, a very expensive weekend as it was Laurens last so we spent it in class. We stayed in Nana which is a up market place in Bangkok i guess, more up market than where I have previously stayed although Lauren used her usual excellent bargain hunting skills and found us a very nice hostel for a bargain price of 250 baht a night each (£5). I arrived the latest of course a...