Andy in Asia: Day in the Life+Pictures!

DAY IN THE LIFE

I have taught a grand total of two classes this week, and that's probably all of them for the week. We have a Christmas pageant thing put on by the school, and instead of going to class all of the kids practice their routines over and over again. Bear in mind that the country is 0.7% Christian. This is the Buddhist country and I am teaching at a government-run Buddhist school. So I just sit at school and wrestle with the internet or talk to coworkers or whatever. The final pageant is today on the grounds of Rajapat University.

Yesterday in the afternoon the kids had a model market where they brought things to school to sell to the other students. Except they were using real money. So it was not a model market, it was a real market. Would never work in America, but it's really cool that they do it here.

Believe it or not one of the most common things I do here is take a break to go to the 7-11 with a coworker or two and get coffee or tea (thai style, quite good, though not as good as the non 7-11 version as you would imagine). The 7-11's have a lot of good stuff. The ice cream they have there is especially good.

I am really starting to enjoy teaching my English classes, though not as much the other subjects. I really feel like they can learn and I can teach them; they are smart and driven kids. Their pronunciation isn't too bad, and they can read and write a heck of a lot better than 90% of Thais.

PICTURES Part 1: Top 10 pictures of first landing in Bangkok