My first Day at School. Our bus leaves the centre at 8.00am. I am the 2nd person to be dropped off. It only takes 15 minutes to reach the school. I am introduced to the Teacher, but find it difficult to say her Thai name. Then I am introduced to the children. They try to say my name and some of the older ones do, but I have been given a Thai nick name- Nuan- said New ann. It means bright, cheerful.The children are 4 and 5 years old, so its a composite grade in an under privileged area. After 15 minutes the teacher disappears and leaves me to do anything I can think of. I do numbers. They are obviously fascinated by me, but they seem quite happy to listen. The attention span of the young ones is not long, so I am quite happy when the teacher arrives back about half an hour later. The morning passes quickly. I help with their sums; we say the colours in English and have a game to learn the colours. Then there is free time to play. Not too bad. I know I will have to think up some activities to do over the next few weeks. Lunch time arrives at 11.30. The food is cooked by the teachers ( they seem to have duties to do the cooking) and I am taken over to an undercover area to eat what is prepared. The staff are very friendly and keen to try out their English. The lunch is again delicious. The one thing you notice all over Thailand are the stray dogs that wander everywhere. They look sick and mangy and nobody touches them for fear of rabies. 12.15 I am picked up from school and home I go. End of Day 1
We're now off to watch some Thai kick boxing.
Thanks the crew from Yack and Christine and David. Lovely to have your comments.
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2 comments:
it would be a concern if there were no dogs walking the streets seeing you are eating so much stir fry!!
Sawaadi Khap Granny Mango - sounds like you are experiencing Thailand properly - with real Thai's day after day. That bit you mentioned about the Thai people just smiling when they don't understand......I don't think it is restricted to Thailand......I've often got a smile on my face.
And about those mangy, rabid dogs - they're pretty well educated and probably won't come too close....they don't want to end up in tomorrow nights stir fry.
We both grew envious seeing your photos eating Thai tucker on the beach - aroi - and so relaxing.
Good luck for the rest of the week.
LOL Son Pomegranet and DIL Rhubarb.
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