Valentine's Day. The day that (in the U.K anyway) couples use to gloat and single people use to drink. But in Thailand it's different. It's a day to show everyone that you love them- your 'love' (boyfriend/girlfriend/crush), your friends, your family and apparently your teachers... As we drove through the school gates this morning an addition to the usual food stalls had appeared. A lady was selling roses by the handful to our students, who entered assembly o...

This week we had a change from same old lessons in school. On Thursday we left for an overnight stay at Khao Sok National Park to run an English Camp for just over thirty of the teachers at our school. Luckily for me I had already been to a part of Khao Sok when I was previously in Thailand but it was very different as it was an overnight stay in a floating bungalow. I enjoyed it immensely and was keen to return, even if it was in a teaching capacity. As with e...

There have been a few times while we have been living in Thailand where telling someone you're a teacher gets you perks. Finding out about the hiden paradise that is Khanom has to be at the top of the list. The place for 'only Thais and English teachers' is a place that you can only find if you're in the know and has managed to avoid crowds of tourists this way (for now anyway). We were told by another teacher that this was the place to go for peace and quiet. I...

I've decided to do a blog dedicated to all the places we've been spending our weekends. Because we've been so keen to see everything and do everything, we've pretty much done the South islands while we have been teaching. Some of the places I managed to visit on my first trip here a year and a half ago, others it was my first time. On the whole, Southern Thailand is beautiful, chilled out and full of friendly locals and interesting traveller-types. Koh Samui ...

I'm a couple of days into 2013 now and have only now had the chance to sit down and write about how I spent my first Christmas and New Year away from my family and friends in Wales. It was definitely different I'll say that! Christmas Day was on a Tuesday this year and while some other teachers had the day off most of us had to get up and go into school as if it was any other day. It was strange waking up on my own and having to go straight to work, but when it ...