On Tuesday morning I was due to be collected by Teacher Det at 7:30 to be taken to school. Chloe - an intern from last semester - told me not to expect students on the first day and that it would more than likely just be a meeting for the teachers. So there I was having a lift to school and trying to have some sort of conversation with Pi-Det (using Pi in front of someone's nickname is like a sign of respect) he doesn't speak much English but he tries, and I no...

Sitting waiting at the bus stop for Krabi - half an hour early as you never know with Thai time - a man asked us where we were going and nodded and walked off, we assumed that meant we were in the right place. Obviously not as a few minutes later he came back and told us to follow him up the road to a different bus stop. One bus came and he shouted to us that this was the wrong bus for us so we sat and waited. Shortly afterwards a beeping horn signalled that th...

When 6:30 came we were packed into a mini bus and dropped off at Samsen, Bangkok train station with a 45 minute wait for our train. We were the talk of the station as we were pretty much the only white people (Farangs) there. The station was hot and sweaty but there were plenty of benches and the 5 of us took up too many seats! We had been left in the hands of the station-master to tell us which was our train and where our carriage would be. The whole experienc...

When we arrived at Sena Place Hotel we were taken straight to hand in our documents and money and find out about our placements! Having made some good friends over the previous few days everyone was anxious about being placed near each other or together! I got my placement pack and seemed to be the only one placed in the south and with primary kids which is exactly what I'd asked for. Sadly everyone else who I'd been with seemed to have all been placed together...

PATTAYA Saturday morning we packed a weekend bag and met in the communal area of the hostel, there was 17 of us due to head to Pattaya and we waited for a mini bus due to collect us at 8am. This was our first experience of ‘Thai time’ as at 8:30 we were still waiting and thinking of that extra 30 minutes we could have had in bed! Eventually we were off and what we were told would take about 2 hours seemed to take about 3 and a half! We stopped half way for s...