Today was Wai Cru day which means teacher appreciation day. The students prepared bouquets for the teachers yesterday and practiced songs to be sung . All the teachers were talking about how enjoyable and fun it was that i kind of hyped up my expectations. Once it was time to go to the gym we sat for an hour and a bit, sang some songs and my class gave me flowers. That was all. lol. This basket was filled with a variety of bouquets, flower rings of jasmine blossoms and bundles of assorted flowers. A large half of my class each gave me one so i had a large basket full of em.
The ring of flower im holding is from one of my students who was very sick for a few days and actually gave me a bag of fruits and goodies to show the parent's appreciation for my efforts. It was very thoughtful and a great surprise to have an admin to come to my desk with a gift bag from a student. The bag had rambutan, fruit that's similar to lychee and pulled pineapple.
Anyways back to the flowers...unfortunatley the flowers are very sweet so ants love to crawl all over them, and so bringing them home would prove to be a terrible idea. We had to throw them out at school or bring them home to throw out.
After wai cru we went back to the office where i opend my drawer to snack on some crackers....to find that the bag had been chewed open by a mouse!!! The house left poop in my drawer too >_<! I ended up throwing alot of my food away since i dunno what else this furry guy walked on, pooped on or whatever. Thankfully my pound of Starbucks was safe =) I found a tin can that would keep it safe =). Our work desks have holes in case if you had cables for computers and such so thats where the furball got into my desk drawers. I taped it up good so hopefully that'll keep em out.
Life in Thailand has been goin well for me. Lots of planning, balancing and accommodating with constant changing plans (like last minute due date spring on you, cancellation on observations). Night classes haven been going well too almost finished another coarse.The next coarse is self directed (with the witch prof) which will be nice since i wont have to rush home every day to shower, cook dinner and goto class. I find that my life really revolves around food...alot more than other ppl. I love shopping for food, hunting for food, eating food, thinking about food...thankfully im not a junk food monster haha.
School ends at 330, then there is a homework classes that go till 4. Parents pay extra for this so not all students will attend. My homework class is my P5/1 and there is only 10. I find that its such a great opportunity to bond with the kids, learn more about them and develop a better understanding of them.
This weekend is Saturday classes for me which means i teach a small group of kids a pre selected lesson. These are kids i normally dont teach which will be an interesting change of pace. I look forwards to the challenge.
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