Sunday, January 17, 2010

Jonny Walker, keep on walking.


Who ever thought chain wallets would come back in style? (Yeah, I definitely owned a "No Boundaries" one!! lol) On Fridays, all of the boys from first 1st-12th grade wear their little boy scouts uniforms and they look precious! This is one of my little third graders carrying books down after P.E. and he really is as cute as he looks!! Friday was a pretty easy day, with the exception of one class. The hot british guy is the P.E teacher and he let Christin and I teach his class while he covered for the computers teacher. Oh my gosh, mistake number 1 2 and 3!! It was the 3rd grade class I have half of the week and it was straight disastrous!! As soon as we walked in the classroom my cute little buddy is doing the "suck it" sign, we all 32 of us pile on ONE elevator and they are yelling and jumping from floor 3-15, then as soon as we step foot in the basketball gym they go absolutely crazy. Soccer is the big sport here so we didn't even consider that 3rd graders can't play a lick of basketball so we tried to have them dribble, split up in teams, everything. Finally we (being Christin) got them to settle down and listen for just long enough to get them to do a relay race dribbling the basketball...my team one..both times :) I was so caught up in the moment I didn't even think about letting Christin and her team beat me the second time so it would be fair...but hey its life :) hahah what a bad teaching mentality, right? She was mad to say the least. Friday night was a big night for Christin and I. We stayed up awhile and hung out with a dude from Kenya and his thai girlfriend/chef where he was staying. We also met a few different groups of locals and needless to say, we brought the party. We were so worn out from a long week of teaching that as soon as they started playing some American music (they LOVE LOVE LOVE the 90s here) we couldn't refrain from getting up and dancing around the whole place. No we didn't get taken. But we made some cool friends and some of the girls numbers so we can hang out again while we're here :) Saturday morning we got up about 9 and started our journey to Hau Hin beach. There are vans leaving to and from there every 30 minutes during they day so we payed about 180 baht each way (5 dollars) and headed 2 hours south to the beach!! Gosh it was absolutely amazing and beautiful!! There wasn't much "beach" but we found a little fancy spot and rented a chair for $3, had lunch, and totally fried our bodies lol. The water literally washed under our chairs the whole time, and we had a cute little cabana boy bringing us food and drinks :) We are such suckers for people who walk around selling things, we each bought 3 dresses each within the first 10 minutes of being there, but hey you can't beat a $4 sun dress!! We spent a good 5-6 hours there and met some interesting people from the Netherlands and London, thats the thing I love most about being here. There are so many different people, cultures, and nationalities and we always meet neat people wherever we go. The bus ride home seemed forever but after a long day we hit up the food court for dinner and hit the sack by 10 lol, getting old. This morning we went and had our hair chemically straightened, conditioned, and waxed for $50! (Thank you mommy and daddy, you're money has been disappearing for very good causes as you can see, lol). It was almost necessary though because the humidity is awful here and our hair just isn't use to it. We got tired of looking sloppy everyday with our hair in a pony tail. After this weekend though we are tan, with straight shiny hair, and i'm ready for P.E. class!!! hahah, okay last picture, this is the beach where we were. Last entry I said I was beginning to miss people at home...yeah not as much as I miss that beach right now as I am getting ready for bed, to start my next week of teaching!! Student teaching in Thailand is such a hard task as you can tell :) Right? Oh, and sorry I never skype, I'm really bad at this internet thing. I mean I'm in a city that never dies...I'm doing good to get back and in bed on time :)

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