Day 8

Sawadeeeee. I hate to break it to everyone but today was a pretty boring day so I dont have much to say.

I woke up this morning and it was raining. It was truly one of those days where you just want to lay in bed with a good book. Btw...I finished the book I was reading and I am quite sad. I have started another book, one of Elena's. Elena and I called Awsawin so that he could give us a ride to school since it was raining and he made me over an hour late for school. When I arrived I immediately had to teach. Just vocab today. We played a version of tic tac toe where I put words on a tic tac toe board. There were two teams and the kids had to chose a word and give the past tense version of it. For example...see to seen. If they did this their team got an x or an o and they had to get three in a row. It worked really well. We played this for an hour or so then I went to talk to Punch...the male teacher who speaks english. At 11:30 we had lunch and it was extremely spicy. After lunch I got to wander around and play with the children. I learned a lot of names today...like Bus, Ping Pong, Tongue, Keem, Bim, Deem Sayoh (mom, this is pronounced how Nick says Nathaniel...thats how I remember it!), Some, Tone, Earth, Watine and others. It was a lot of fun. The kids also think its the most fun in the world to ask me places where I have been. They say "have you ever been to..." because that is one of the phrases I taught them and they all cheer when I say yes. They also find it hysterical when I say Phuket for some reason and die laughing whenever I speak it.

The other interesting part of my day was that I had to teach an art class. They just expect me to do whatever...its so strange. It was funny though. I had the kids draw nature and animals and I also kind of taught them how to say certain animals in english. I have learned so much about thinking on the spot and coming up with things to do.

Now I am back Tony's place for dinner and to use the internet...with all the girls from the hostel.

Thats all for now...told you it was going to be short. I hope all is well at home!