Have just finished up 3 blissful weeks of time away from the kids. Well, I did bump into one yesterday unexpectedly in the mall. Poor thing, he got all excited and then didn't know what to do with himself
"teacher! teacher! Hello! Hello!"
(this is long beach on Phi Phi)
cue much pointing and nudging of parents and then even more shock as I wai (for the culturally challenged that's when you raise your hands like you are praying to greet Thais), then utter confusion as kid is clearly wondering to himself "ok, she's seen me, I've said hello, now what do I do?, I know"
"hello!, hello teacher"
"yes hello Supachai absolutely spiffing to see you, but we'll have a more in depth conversation in class on Monday shall we? don't forget your 5000 word essay on the advantages of your parents paying an exhorbitant amount of money to have a fully-qualified foreign teacher educating their child in the simple pleasures of linguistic acquisition and all you can muster is hello after one semester.
Can't wait to get to work on "how are you" with them this semester.
ah well, back to the holiday. Relive it one more time before the ugly reality of work raises it's head.
Did both Northern and Southern Thailand this time. Travelled in far more style and luxury than usual as TB's (The Boy's) parents came to visit for the first ten days. Went on a Thai cooking course which was great fun, in fact for more fun than I had anticipated as we were the only two learning thus avoiding sharing valuable learning time with drongos. It was fairly foolproof however, and lots of bashing of ingredients (which was my fave part) rather than artsy fartsy chopping of vegetables into equal size cubes which I've never thought particularly necessary to add taste to a dish.
Down in the South I had my first real beach holiday. I am not well versed in beach holidays as was burnt within 3 days. TB is far more susceptible than myself, no mention of rednecks here, so the last couple of days were spent hiding from the sun and peeling each other - woo that was some holiday! Did eat King fish, no idea what it is but it was nice, quite like the extensive choice of seafood in this country and did much snorkelling (main reason for aforementioned burnedness - yep, I'm just making up words as I go along, fab generally accepted trick I picked up from watching American television) and will definately be learning to dive in another upcoming holiday.
Well, I just had a computer mishap and lost half the text attaching the photo so shall leave for now as can't face doing it all again.
Important lesson learnt today: do photos first.
2 comments:
Yeah cause your crazy-arse travels are not woth writing about! Gimme a break woman.Unfortunately my life is mainly boring crap with the odd classic moment thrown in courtesy of the rich tapestry of people in the world today...
erm what's prompting this lewd behavious?
I know I can bring the conversation into the darkest depths of the sewer (for some plaes they didn't even know exist) but surely there are other sites upon which to relieve yourselves?
Resorting to "teacher mode" if it doesn't come to an end soon I shall delete it, and 50 lines with the following:
I shall not write pointless, boring, unecessary, comments on this site without having the courtesy to make it entertaining, informative or at least witty. I teach in a primary school man, some of kids could come up with better stuff!
Shockingly, only the other day I turned round to discover one of the girls flashing her knickers at the boys! 8 man, 8 years-old!!! I looked at her and said "close your legs, Ja" and carried on. What can you do?
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