Quickly for those of you wondering, the Japan earthquake/tsunami will not be hitting Thailand - the Tsunami warning cleared Thailand almost straight away, still I'm sure it will bring back some memories for the people who live in this beautiful country. I think most of us interns are very aware that Japan has a huge number of TEFL teachers over there and it could easily have been happening to us so our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who's been effected! ...

Hello!!!!!!! Having a very productive morning here at school, my first lesson isnt till 10.30 so thought id send a little update on this thing! things have been pretty quiet since my last blog. Ive been spending my weekends relaxing and writing a persoanl statement for the old PGCE applictation. Dont think ive ever spent so much time alone, but its been kinda nice, in some ways just what I needed, i'm over it now though! Lots of thinking and reflection and all...

Hello there, At school and once again all the children have run away (well my year have gone to military camp) so I'm not teaching all day. I guess I should cover new years quickly, headed to bangkok, stayed in a hostel on the ks road about 10 of us in all. spent the day mooching round the market and eating western food and napping in recovery from the overnight journey. We were pretty lucky, after arriving at 5 am we managed to find a hostel that would let us ...

HAPPY CHRISTMAS from Thailand! My school is getting into the swing of things but I am yet to feel like its christmas!! Its very odd in the sunshine remembering what time of year it is! The video I have added is one of my classes learning the 12 days of christmas, they didnt really learn it but I got them counting backwards and as you can see "five gold rings" went down pretty well! I just stuck the camera on a chair and let it record so its not the be...

Figure its been a while since I've written so I'll fill some time with another entry! Struggling with a bit of home sickness this week to be honest, most of that is prob due to having spent the last 4 days on my own, got me a nice ear nose and throat infection so its just been me and my anti biotics for the past few days. Back to school tomorrow though and off to the beach on friday for christmas day so I'm really looking forward to that. Also decided to spend...