A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to visit a teacher’s home. The backstory is he lives in a small farming town of approximately 400 people in the province of Phetchaburi, Thailand. He had been living in this village with his Thai wife for the past 12 years and was one of the only …
Continue reading "Thank You Tha Yang for Culture Shock 101"Played a game with my M1 and M2 students today called last man/woman standing. It is a rambunctious fast-moving game and the rules are simple. Students stand by their desk at which point I shout out a subject like “Things you would find in the universe” and each student has to respond within five seconds …
Continue reading "Rapport building through Food & Games"My morning ride sharing partner is on a visa run in Laos for the next three days. I therefore had to resort back to riding a motor scooter to school. This resulted in the usual neck kink from stress, fear, and a general sense of foreboding as all I could imagine was falling off the …
Continue reading "School Assemblies are Great!"Walked out of my apartment complex this morning towards the motor scooter area at the front of the complex and spoke with another teacher who used Grab every morning. We agreed to split the price of the Grab (60Baht each) and now I don’t have to ride on the back of a motor scooter any …
Continue reading "Getting in the Groove"Had breakfast at “Breakfast Story” in Bangkok and ordered a stack of pancakes. It was a restaurant designed to serve American breakfasts to English speaking persons. Afterwards, a group of us figured out how to use the overhead and underground railway systems (BTS and MRT) which cut the transportation costs to an unbelievably low amount …
Continue reading "Bangkok Public Transportation"Started the morning with TESOL training and picked up a lot of new tricks that I can use in the classroom when teaching English. After that, I had an interview with my agent (Angel Ha-BFITS) and it went really well. She confirmed I would be teaching intensive English to 7thand 8thgraders in Pathum Thani at …
Continue reading "Spiritual Touch"Walked to the office and had coffee at Waggin’ Tales cafe. Waggin’ Tales cafe is a business run by Xplore Asia which supports a non-profit organization in Hua Hin that spays and neuters dogs. It is a clean smoothly run cafe that provides a wide assortment of food and drinks for reasonable prices. I had …
Continue reading "Learning how to Function"To say this was a full day would be a massive understatement. I met the group I was traveling with in the morning and we traveled in vans (separated into groups of six) from Bangkok to Hua Hin (2.5-hour trip). Our hotel that we are staying at in Hua Hin is called Glory Place and …
Continue reading "Transitioning"Had trouble sleeping through the night. Woke up at about 4:00am and was apprehensive that I had made an appointment at 9:00am with Mr. Laem to go to Ayutthaya for 2000 baht. Went on the internet and found this was way too much money plus I was nervous that he might try to sway me …
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