Thursday was our last day of teaching (properly), The lessons all went well and we think the children had finally learnt even just a little bit more English than they knew before...Only joking we were amazing teachers and they are now fluent in the English language as well as writing!! haha. In the evening all the teachers took us out to a Korean BBQ style resturant to say thanks for us teaching. It was a really nice evening, they gave us a present each (a really...

Monday and Tuesday were normal teaching days where most of the children behaved apart from pratom 2.... they were soo noisy and constantly fighting that we told Won who after giving a talking too she told Sonsim (the year 2 teacher). She got incredibly annoyed with us and Won because as we found out she doesn't like anyone saying anything bad about her class! This Wednesday was the kings birthday so no school (again)! Instead we were taken to the hot springs by A...

Discovery College On Wednesday we had Discovery College from Hong Kong come to Sanpakha school to paint a mural. They did one last year of ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations). It is the same idea as the EU only in Asia and will be made up of Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines, Singapore and Cambodia. This year they painted lotus' and dragonflies on a wall and 'welcome' in English and Thai on another. They were ...

Monday 19th November - Sunday 25th November This week went pretty smoothly. All our lessons went to plan although some of the kids have started being really cheeky with us! They hide under the tables and play "boxing" with each other (really their just fighting) but with our language barrier we cant tell them off and they can't tell us what happened. With year 1 on Monday though none of them were listening to us so their teacher made five of them huddle round ...

Saturday and Sunday On Saturday, we went over to Ploy's (our neighbor) and she taught us how to make sticky rice with coconut: 1. Fry the coconut with brown sugar and a shallot 2. Knead the sticky rice flour with water 3. Prepare the banana leaves and put oil on them 4. Encase the coconut mixture in the sticky rice dough 5. Fold the banana leaf around it 6. Steam for 30 minutes While we were waiting for them to cook the little girl that was helping us make the...