Take a moment....okay we're good. This is our cutsie little british PE coach, Andy. Christin took this and I'm out of pictures to put up here as we lazily sit and blog now that we aren't teaching.
Okay so Friday was our last day of teaching right? Yeah, I literally cried when I left the classroom, I LOVE MY KIDS! But all of the faculty in our office presented us with a large picture frame of us and our class (I'm not smiling in mine and Christin isn't even looking, Christian one of the guys made it which makes it all the more funnier! It literally was the worse picture out of the TEN he took, so funny but cute!!) and we all had a pizza party. This is a picture of everyone in our little office that we got to know over our course of teaching here, they are so sweet!!
This...well this was our Friday evening picture. We went out to a new area we had never been before with some friends we've made here and some of their friends. We listened to a Thai band play, I love that they play about 80% american music, so fun! But we had a little dinner, watched TV, then went out and listened to this band and met some cool people. It's never a dull day or night here in Bagkok.
So we definitely went to Koh Samet beach this weekend, oh what an adventure. This is the moped we rented as SOON as we got there, best idea we've had yet!! We had to take a two hour mini bus to the waterline, then a fifteen minute ride on a speedboat, then we got off the speedboat and just started walking around looking for somewhere to stay. We stayed in this crappy little roomand it was only $20 for the night lol, I'm talking our shower leaked into our whole room and you had to literally straddle the toilet while you showered because the bathroom was so little and the shower is just in the middle of it!! I loved our room though, and even more so this sweet little moped. It was only $10 to rent for the day, and we rode it all around the little island, thankfully we still have all of our limbs!!! We were driving on little dirt roads with potholes and passing trucks with just enough room for us to squeeze by, it was scary but we got the hang of it real quick. We're big girls...that little thing had power!
These are the fine British gents we met during our two days there, they saved us from a crazy group of Canadians lol and we hit it off pretty quick. Okay so lets talk about how all of us were hanging out at the beach, not even 150 feet from our stuff and some old hag of a lady stole my camera and wallet!! It's alot of tourist so not even thinking, I hid my purse with our stuff and within FIVE minutes she had come over and taken it, they sit and wait for those opportunities! These two guys helped us search the beach for her and there was no sign. All I'm saying is that someone must have been praying for Christin and I at 3 in the afteroon, because we definitely had angels around us at one point when we were faced with some locals. That's all I'm going to say. But we had a complete blast, it was sad to leave Sunday evening, but I obviously have alot to figure out money wise, I don't have my drivers license, debit cards, or the cash I had in there! Luckily I had just pulled my passport out and left it in my travel bag or that would have been real bad!! But yes, this is Adam on the left and Alex on the right, total sweethearts :)
This has snuck up and become our SECOND favorite meal in thailand, this was at our usual coffee shop for lunch! It's called, and excuse the spelling this is just how you pronounce it, "cow-man-guy." UUUGH, its so freakin good. They always put a fried egg on top of the rice and its just delicious! My body is going to hate me when I go back to eating nasty greasy american food that comes in portions big enough to feed a whole family here lol. Literally, at DQ their "take home pint of ice cream" is like a normal large serving at our DQ!!! The portions are usually so small here, unless you go somewhere touristy and they pile it up.
These are my 3rd graders and I snuck this picture while Jayson was going over some stuff with them at the end of class. This is the technique we do to hold there attention. They will be talking, cutting up, doing there work whatever and as soon as you say "boys, hands on your head!" they do it and its good because they can't keep doing there work or write or anything, they HAVE to look at you and pay attention. This little one in the front right with the blue jacket on is Siraphop, and he wears that jacket everyday and its blistering hot here! You can't see his little hair but it sticks STRAIGHT UP, its sooo cute! He reminds me of a little american skater punk with his saggy little shorts, so funny.
Atid is such a little goofball, these were the cones we used during PE and he has big ears so he could get this things to stay on there. He looks like a little asian Shrek :) Everything they do is so cute to me.
Okay so Thursday the school had a circus in the middle of the "football pitch" also known as the soccer field lol. They set up like 3,000 or so chairs, this huge stage and everything in like FIVE HOURS!! But this is a circus group from China and these kids aren't even real people. Like they can fold their body up and twist in ways that shouldn't be possible (erin owenby, I put in an application for you!! Keep those stretches up!!) In this picture these girls are balancing on each other as they SIT ON THEIR OWN HEAD!! Like the face you see on teh bottom, that first set of legs are HERS! Their balance and flexibility is amazing. Christin and I literally sat there with our mouth wide open for an hour squeezing each others leg out of sympathy pain because they were just moving like I've never seen a human move before. The kids ages ranged from like 5-15 too!
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