The Thai House Bangkok

... the "reflection" in. Then they watercolored sky and water. These also turned out really well.

It was quite a fun week in first grade!

As far as personal life goes, I've been fighting a cold all week. Nothing major, just everyone is sick- teachers and students. I came home early one day (I didn't have my students in the afternoon) and I even skipped volleyball to try to rest up. Friday night I went to Cindy's house to bake pumpkin pies ...

Well I have arrived in Bangkok, and the trip was about as smooth as I could have hoped for. Quick flight fro Canberra to Sydney and despite the fact it was only twenty minutes long they served a breakfast???

I got through immgration in Sydney with 45 minutes to spare thank you Jen and Siobhan for freaking me out unnessarily. My flight to Bangkok was underbooked by seventy people so they shifted ...

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... s life in a nutshell. I'm going to upload pictures and hopefully I'll be able to add captions. 

Oh by the way, to elaborate on what Ben said about nicknames:
-We had a cabbie driver named ****
-I have students with such colorful names as Beer, Gun, Cake, Nut, Oily, Oil, Pingpong, Chat, Boy, Meow, Zeen, and Bung. Ben has nicknamed me Ahjahn, the Thai word for teacher. I nicknamed him Viejo. As most of you know... or probably could've guessed. 

So, those pictures... 
 

4 dagar í algerri slökun á fílaeyjunni, rétt sunnan við Bangkok, var engu lík. Ætlaði að ná smá lit í andlitið og sól, því þar hafði metnaður minn ekki legið í gegnum ferðina. Var alltaf að gera eitthvað annað en að sóla mig, trén skyggðu á og í borgunum er svo mikil mengun að maður verður bara sveittur en ekki brúnn.

En það var rigning eiginlega allan tíman, nema síðasta daginn, sem gerði dvölina bara rólega og kósý. Vaknaði ...

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I comfort myself with the excuse that its the institution of the Thai ministry of education coupled with other necessarily capitalistic factors of working for a private school that are causing my miseries but recognize that it is also because of my lack of experience that I am unhappy where I am. All in all, it is not my students' lack of motivation that is the overall reason behind my decision to find new employment but my own lack of ...

... you buy something. So they kept coming up to us we kept turning around and trying to not talk to them. Didn't want to be rude but they were the scampers. One guy even said "F*** YOU!" Kind of funny because he probably couldn't say anything else in English. We used our feet and saw a lot of things that day - famous monuments and stuff. Climbed to a lookout where a bunch of art students were all painting cityscapes. It was fun to watch them paint. On the way back to the ...

... badges. When we finally made it up to the Second floor we realized that the International Organization for Migration or IMO, actually was divided into two sections, one for Thailand and the other for the whole of South East Asia.

At our meeting was Hera Shanaj the Programme Coordinator and one of her interns. They gave us an overall summary of what the IOM does. The organization has been working in Thailand since 1999, and basically ...

... traffic, cutting up taxis and
swerving to avoid motorcycles and buses. Jeeze! Tuk tuk driver insisted in taking us to what he promised was a “quality restaurant yes” ....15 minutes later we find ourselves in a dodgy looking fish restaurant, the ONLY customers and plastic peeling menus. Resisting the urge to ...

... fireworks had stopped the DJ pumped up the music and the crowd got on its feet to enjoy some pulse pounding American Music.

We where on our way out when we ran into some other Americans, then some Englishmen, Australians, New Zealands, and Dutch and we started partying all over again.


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