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First day of work

I have SO MUCH MORE respect for the teachers of my past. Those kids a freakin' NUTS! I had a great time but it seems like we are more high
priced baby sitters than anything else.

Obviously I had my first day the other day. Not really sure what I was getting into but since I was filling in the teacher should leave where the kids are and what to do. So I thought no problem. Yeah great idea, here are the notes for the two classes I was filling in at:



Class one 9AM - 12 PM: Have them take a test and then play games.

Class two 1PM - 4PM: They are on unit 12 so you can do some excercises from the book. They don't like the workbook to much so they will want to play games. They are pretty much board of the games that Inlingua has but you can probably get them to pictionary.




Great notes teach, and of course I also ended up filling in at the branch WHERE EVERY TEACHER hates these kids. And they let me know it. They gave me no advice and pretty much through me to the wolves. Great experience, but don't get me wrong but these kids ran me up down and then over.

I did have a good time. I got the first class to play hangman for an hour after thier test and then I discovered SORRY, the board game. THEY LOVE
THAT GAME. Atleast the first class did. Somehow I made it through that.

The second class was a little different. The workbook has two pages for section 12 so that did not last long. I made them do 3 excercises and they
did them perfectly. These kids know english. So these guys did not want to play hangman. So we played scrabble and sorry for 1 and a half hours
until I brought in Clue Jr. Yes a game they did not know so they were infatuated with it. Except that only lasted one game, which luckily took 50 minutes so we sat and I listend to them talk Thai for 10 minutes.

Jenn had little kids, mine were 10-12 year olds. She had 5-10 year olds for one class. She said they were up and throwing scissors and crayons into the
air. THESE KIDS ARE CRAZY!

I did learn a few things, I need to bring so many resources to play/color/write on that we could go for a day. Anyway.........

Right now we are only working fillins. I will actually be teaching some older people such as business people. I am really looking forward to that.
Having my own classes where I can control where they are in the book and I get to know them better.

Anyway Jenn and I finally moved in. We are living in the same place but not same apartment which is good because it is time I have my own space for a little bit. I have a pretty nice place actually. One room with a bathroom. No TV, no fridge but I do have the internet. Room is 30 square meters which
is pretty big and the area is all Thai. Very very few Farang (Foriegners). I like it. My room is nice since I think I am starting to get closterphobic (I have no idea if that is the way you spell it or not).

We have been experimenting with the food locally but every once in a while I need a hamburger. I have had 3 since I got here which is incredible. My
stomach is still getting used to the food here as well. Jenn actuall had some cool teachers at her fill in school. So we went out with one of them the other night.

It was cool, got to sit on one of the back streets and talk with the locals. Food was good and so was the beer and company.

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