Good update Jess. Yes, the cow is between our house and Scott's house. Owner: Anonymous or N/A
We will for sure be home summer 2010, maybe before, but deff by then!
Its going to be 42 degrees soon, from what Jessica's Thai Teacher told her.
only 2 more weeks left of school for me (3 days for jessica) and then we are going to start planning to go away with Greg and Lorraine to Chiang Mai (northen Thailand) and Laos and Vietnam and Cambodia.
Should be a lot of fun, I can't wait!!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
you and me baby, paradise
first things first! shout out to bff richard- happy birthday!!!!!! wish I could be there to celebrate with you!!!
secondly- hahaha nice post reffa.
update: I located the COW, it is between ours and scott's soi.
update: it was windy today, but that didn't stop sweat from dripping down the small of my back.
fact: I am dying my hair brown today.
fact: I love Thai food.
fact: my kids are so cute!! I have these guys on the weekend
fact: we got our motorbike today!!! I'll let you know if we can drive or not tomorrow. YIKES!!!
don't worry parents, we'll be extra super careful. in the wise words of Erin: "I don't want to die as much as you don't want me to die" LOL
fact: we're coming home for the summer of 2010 no matter what for mat and char's wedding and for an undetermined amount of time before setting out into the world again.
love ya'll. xo
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
38 Degrees, thats why they call me Mr. Ferenheit
Its been 38 degrees the last few days, its not so bad when theres a breeze....but 2 days ago there was no breeze. I think I had 3 showers that day.
There is a cow or buffalo or something near our house that has been mooing all night.
Weird, I know.
There is a cow or buffalo or something near our house that has been mooing all night.
Weird, I know.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Tuon Witt
Started my new job at "Tuon Witt Pattana School" (pronounced don-wit)
Iwork with our friend Scott,who also teaches there, and his 4.5 year old son Sebastien is one of my students. Sebastien is in Annuban2, which is like the second level of kindergarden.
He can speak both Thai and English, so hes my little helper around the classroom.
(which i need sometimes)
I show up at the school at 8:00 with Scott and Sebastien, and we walk over to the Directors office.... he isnt there.... that's ok, The manager is. So i went and sat in with the manager, and she gives me a schedule and I look at Monday.....my first class is at 8:10am! So she asks me if i've ever taught before, if I can teach science and if I like living in Thailand. I answered all three questions and she sent me off with a student to show me where my room was.
It was sebastien's class.
i walked in and there was students Muoy Thai'ing each other and jumping off piles of matts, and kicking each other in the air, wrestling each other to the ground, the girls were playing "doctor" and "nurse", two kids got bitten, 3 ended up in tears (the biter cried cause the bite-ee was sad) and i ended up losing my voice.....wish i videotaped it actually...
I walked over and grabbed a chair to set my stuff down on. And I sat down on it and put the stuff on my lap. Then a little girl came over to me and started massaging my arms, then two little boys came up behind me and I heard "...song.....saaam.....JUPE!!" (kiss!) and they both kissed either of my cheeks from behind. Then I laughed and got them all to sit around in a circle. Then one kid came up and started hitting my butt with a ruler while another was laying on the ground trying to look up my skirt. Then one of the kids started crying cause his book had a rip in it, so i was forced to snoop through another teachers desk to look for a piece of tape to fix it for him.... then to top it all off, they can't speak english!!
But thats the only class that I have problems with so far, except for my Prathom 1/1's. I am like the school's Science /English teacher, but I have to teach Prathom 1/1 in Thai.....?!? The manager of the school gave me a sheet for my first day and it was a fill in the blanks sheet written in complete, 100% thai script. and it was describing things and you had to choose wether they were related to the sun or not. And I said "shouldn't I be talking in engluish?" and then the thai teacher came over to me and started talking in Thai explaining that I need to teach them about the sun.
And I was like "ok, so like, how big it is? how far away from earth it is? percentage of water? that kinda stuff....???" and she writes english on piece of paper that says
"use full of sun"
so... i stand in front of the class and introduce myself and draw a sun on the board. ask them what it is, and they said sun. So i thought i was on a roll, and asked for a student to come up and draw sunlight for me. And the thai teacher comes over and stops me and says "no no no...." and opens up a thai textbook and tells me to teach from it???!
Then i look at it and its got a picture of clothes hanging on a clothes line.
I dragged that out for an hour. Along with "the sun can dry fish"
I teach them again this Monday... I wonder what the Thai textbook has to say.....
no really, i wonder!
actually its not that bad, The students are very sweet in most of my classes and the girls follow me everywhere and the boys ask me questions about Canada. And the girls make me oragami, and stick stickers on my shirt and fix the wrinkles inmy clothes when I don't notice. They hold my hand when I walk them to drink their soymilk between classes and they listen for the most part.
The best part is that I get weekends off and paid more money.
We found out today that Korea is going to cost us 35,000 baht for 4 or 5 days. So i dont think we are going to go anymore.
Thats almost 2,000 dollars.
will write more later. have headache!
Iwork with our friend Scott,who also teaches there, and his 4.5 year old son Sebastien is one of my students. Sebastien is in Annuban2, which is like the second level of kindergarden.
He can speak both Thai and English, so hes my little helper around the classroom.
(which i need sometimes)
I show up at the school at 8:00 with Scott and Sebastien, and we walk over to the Directors office.... he isnt there.... that's ok, The manager is. So i went and sat in with the manager, and she gives me a schedule and I look at Monday.....my first class is at 8:10am! So she asks me if i've ever taught before, if I can teach science and if I like living in Thailand. I answered all three questions and she sent me off with a student to show me where my room was.
It was sebastien's class.
i walked in and there was students Muoy Thai'ing each other and jumping off piles of matts, and kicking each other in the air, wrestling each other to the ground, the girls were playing "doctor" and "nurse", two kids got bitten, 3 ended up in tears (the biter cried cause the bite-ee was sad) and i ended up losing my voice.....wish i videotaped it actually...
I walked over and grabbed a chair to set my stuff down on. And I sat down on it and put the stuff on my lap. Then a little girl came over to me and started massaging my arms, then two little boys came up behind me and I heard "...song.....saaam.....JUPE!!" (kiss!) and they both kissed either of my cheeks from behind. Then I laughed and got them all to sit around in a circle. Then one kid came up and started hitting my butt with a ruler while another was laying on the ground trying to look up my skirt. Then one of the kids started crying cause his book had a rip in it, so i was forced to snoop through another teachers desk to look for a piece of tape to fix it for him.... then to top it all off, they can't speak english!!
But thats the only class that I have problems with so far, except for my Prathom 1/1's. I am like the school's Science /English teacher, but I have to teach Prathom 1/1 in Thai.....?!? The manager of the school gave me a sheet for my first day and it was a fill in the blanks sheet written in complete, 100% thai script. and it was describing things and you had to choose wether they were related to the sun or not. And I said "shouldn't I be talking in engluish?" and then the thai teacher came over to me and started talking in Thai explaining that I need to teach them about the sun.
And I was like "ok, so like, how big it is? how far away from earth it is? percentage of water? that kinda stuff....???" and she writes english on piece of paper that says
"use full of sun"
so... i stand in front of the class and introduce myself and draw a sun on the board. ask them what it is, and they said sun. So i thought i was on a roll, and asked for a student to come up and draw sunlight for me. And the thai teacher comes over and stops me and says "no no no...." and opens up a thai textbook and tells me to teach from it???!
Then i look at it and its got a picture of clothes hanging on a clothes line.
I dragged that out for an hour. Along with "the sun can dry fish"
I teach them again this Monday... I wonder what the Thai textbook has to say.....
no really, i wonder!
actually its not that bad, The students are very sweet in most of my classes and the girls follow me everywhere and the boys ask me questions about Canada. And the girls make me oragami, and stick stickers on my shirt and fix the wrinkles inmy clothes when I don't notice. They hold my hand when I walk them to drink their soymilk between classes and they listen for the most part.
The best part is that I get weekends off and paid more money.
We found out today that Korea is going to cost us 35,000 baht for 4 or 5 days. So i dont think we are going to go anymore.
Thats almost 2,000 dollars.
will write more later. have headache!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
krabi
we just got back from Krabi... it was ... amazing.
We only went for 3 days, and wished we had so much longer to stay there. We were told to go to Riley, so off we went and it was great! but when we got there it was very expensive and like "honeymoonish" with like old couples and families on resort and stuff so we went exploring and found this awesome backpacker beach with cheap bungalos and endless rasta bars along the beach which was WAY cooler. you had to be in good shape to get there so it was just young people (all with perfect bodies by the way... they were all intense rock climbers..)
anyways. the coolest thing we did was climb up and then down into a volcano to this awesome lagoon... wow!! I never thought I'd do anything like that. it was amazing. we also explored caves, and hiked, and just relaxed on the beach and swam and are pinapples. yum. here are a couple of pictures but the rest are on facebook!!!
sorry it's brief! gotta get back to work!
xo
Friday, February 6, 2009
New job!!!!
okay first things first..... IT'S MY MOM'S BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU SOSOSOSOSOSOSOOSOS MUCH!!! i MISS YOU AND WISH I COULD GIVE YOU A BIG HUGE KISS ON THE CHEEK!
and friends who read this, please make my mom feel really special today, she's a really great person and deserves such a wonderful birthday.
next big item.
REFFA STARTED A NEW JOB!!!!!!! today was day 1. it's a great job, double the money (more than double actually) and a little over half the hours she was working. now evenings and weekends are ours for the exploring!!!!!!! =)=) there are so many positive sides to this new job that i can't even begin to list them!! maybe I will leave the details for her to post anyways. I gave you the short burst of excitment that we're experiencing :):):)
yayyayayaya!!!
tomorrow we go for a 3 day vacation to a beach house on a beach in Krabi (in Reily actually... ) so so excited. don't worry there will be pictures!!!!!!!!!!!
okay. i'm a LITTLE over excited. ahhahaha.
I think we are going to check out a bar called "pool bar" tonight with our friends.
miss you.
HAPPY BDAY MOM.
xoxoxoxox
and friends who read this, please make my mom feel really special today, she's a really great person and deserves such a wonderful birthday.
next big item.
REFFA STARTED A NEW JOB!!!!!!! today was day 1. it's a great job, double the money (more than double actually) and a little over half the hours she was working. now evenings and weekends are ours for the exploring!!!!!!! =)=) there are so many positive sides to this new job that i can't even begin to list them!! maybe I will leave the details for her to post anyways. I gave you the short burst of excitment that we're experiencing :):):)
yayyayayaya!!!
tomorrow we go for a 3 day vacation to a beach house on a beach in Krabi (in Reily actually... ) so so excited. don't worry there will be pictures!!!!!!!!!!!
okay. i'm a LITTLE over excited. ahhahaha.
I think we are going to check out a bar called "pool bar" tonight with our friends.
miss you.
HAPPY BDAY MOM.
xoxoxoxox
Thursday, February 5, 2009
master poster
thanks for calling me the master of posts ally. I'm sitting here by myself, repeating "master poster, master poster" and that's funny so I'm laughing, but then it gets funnier when I picture a big huge (master) poster of myself posting a message and it's funnier and now i'm laughing and people are looking. HAHA okay.
so life in Thailand is amazing, as per usual. If you had told me that every day for breakfast I would be eating sour juicy pinapple freshly cut, along with tiny little delicious banana's with coconut water I would have laughed in your face, because this time last year I refused to drink anything with pinapple juice in it, gagged when you put banana's in the same room as me , and when I ordered a box of timbits I would ask for some of all kinds except for plain (boring) and coconut LOLOLOLLLL . okay other than my fruit preference I haven't changed much. don't worry. I'm still the same dorky jessica .
guess what we're doing tomorrow? going on a boat trip to Krabi Island with our super friends to spend a solid 4 days of doing nothing but scuba diving, sightseeing, mountain climbing, going to chicken island (i'm not sure asbout this one yet but apparently it's a must-see..... ) , and laying on the beach geting rid of this gawd awful pale skin !!!!!!!!!!!!!! YUMMYYYYYY what a fantastic weekend eh?! we'll be thinking of you in your coats and scarves while we're baking in the sand and taking watermelon milkshake breaks. mmmm i can taste the icy watermelon already.
(have i made you drool all over the keyboard yet Ally?)
gotta go, I'm teaching in 10 minutes. basically, I want to say that I love you all so sososososos much and Thailand is so ssossososo amazing. I'm happy, happy person. MeeKwamSuk as they say in Thailand.
xoxxx
so life in Thailand is amazing, as per usual. If you had told me that every day for breakfast I would be eating sour juicy pinapple freshly cut, along with tiny little delicious banana's with coconut water I would have laughed in your face, because this time last year I refused to drink anything with pinapple juice in it, gagged when you put banana's in the same room as me , and when I ordered a box of timbits I would ask for some of all kinds except for plain (boring) and coconut LOLOLOLLLL . okay other than my fruit preference I haven't changed much. don't worry. I'm still the same dorky jessica .
guess what we're doing tomorrow? going on a boat trip to Krabi Island with our super friends to spend a solid 4 days of doing nothing but scuba diving, sightseeing, mountain climbing, going to chicken island (i'm not sure asbout this one yet but apparently it's a must-see..... ) , and laying on the beach geting rid of this gawd awful pale skin !!!!!!!!!!!!!! YUMMYYYYYY what a fantastic weekend eh?! we'll be thinking of you in your coats and scarves while we're baking in the sand and taking watermelon milkshake breaks. mmmm i can taste the icy watermelon already.
(have i made you drool all over the keyboard yet Ally?)
gotta go, I'm teaching in 10 minutes. basically, I want to say that I love you all so sososososos much and Thailand is so ssossososo amazing. I'm happy, happy person. MeeKwamSuk as they say in Thailand.
xoxxx
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