Chon Inter Hotel Chon Buri

... first class understood my rules for the most part, was able to copy down questions and answer them and speak in front of the class. The 2nd 5th grade class was a lot slower. They did not understand nearly as much as the other class and I had to spell everything out for them.  I actually had to go over the alphabet with one girl she was so clueless. Oh well. Hopefully we'll get somewhere, just at a slower pace.  

I wrote this in my email to people so forgive me if ...

... talking on a cell phone while clutching the handlebars, followed by probably her father and two other children behind him. Definately a different world. There's homeless dogs and cats everywhere, and somehow the dogs are successful at playing Frogger with the traffic. If it helps anyone feel warmer, it's been kind of a humid, hot and sweaty day here in the city. Take Care. Will write again in the next few days.

Cant be bothered to write too much so I'll give the necessary details and no more :-) We stayed the first night on the Khao San road in a really nice hotel (6 quid a night) AMAZING. Whilst wondering around in the evening we found this tour in which they provided lots of fun things to do and food and accommodation all for 1700 baht, that pretty good value. The coach picks us up at 7 AM and we spend about 3 hours on a coach, when it finally stops we are outside the war museum by ...

... a work permit also does the trick. Nong Grace was free as she is less than 140 cms. But that sign is written in Thai and so I am not sure if that includes foreign children. The price for Thai children is 60 baht. To reach the zoo, just take the main highway from Bangkok towards Chonburi and then Pattaya. The zoo is in the Sriracha district. Big signs tell you when to turn off so it is quite simple. My blog, more stories!! : http://www.thai-blogs.com/index.php?blo g=5

Nantawan would be the perfect place for a study about the development of language.

The students here are beautiful. I feel so blessed to be able to converse with my students. There is one girl, Memee, that looks for me every morning so that we can talk about her life. She is just six years old and has been placed in ESL, yet she has a vast vocabulary which she uses if prompted ...

... was devastated by the Boxing Day Tsunami. They have since rebuilt most of their cost line. Unfortunately the day before we went there had be a bad fire which had destroyed several buildings. I couldn't help but wonder these poor people would get a break! We had lunch there and explored the beach before heading to our next stop. This was the best yet! It was a small Island which consisted of white sand, crystal clear water and a hut serving ice creams and cocktails, this is the life! I ...

... My folks have been on this health kick lately and both have lost a lot of weight.  I'm very proud of them.  We all said hellos and we got them up into bed and settled in.  The next morning we got started with, what might be the best breakfast buffet on the planet.  Everyone could not believe the choices or the fact that it was included in the price.  We ate way more than we probably should have, every morning, but it was fantastic.  That first day we just sort of got the lay of the ...

... at this stage, just small talk. If she is interested in you, she will ask the questions for sure. Now wait a day or so and then return. Tell her you were just passing by and wanted to stop and visit for a while. Engage in small talk again and answer her questions. Take your time and stick around a while. She now knows you are interested in her, so the questions will start coming that are more personal. You can now ask a few small personal questions, such as how many ...

... we spent the nite with him and his thai friends getting wecked on straight thai whisky and singing very loud!! the next day we were feeling so wrecked and couldnt cope in our hot box anymore and splashed out on a nice airconditioned hotel which took american dollars ( so thankyou Clare and Michael for the treat :-) the transport is so hectic here too, when we were trying to navigate ourselvess round bangkok to look at ...

... background. We went for Hello Kitty and some tarzan-like anime character. Third, the air con. It's over 40 degrees Celsius in a city of 6 million. Enough said. ********* It wasn't all malls and movies. We managed to fit in some live music. There seems to be an obsession with American rock of the sixties. However, we came across a club with a live ska band. (It works ...