Sunday, June 28, 2009
RIP Ya
Our friend Ya from Patong just got in a motorbike accident last night and didn't make it through the night. He was recently married and his wife is expecting a baby in 4 months. =( RIP Ya.
Friday, June 26, 2009
armpit friday
my first meeting at the court offices today.
It went okay, nothing conclusive as of yet. gonna go get a thai massage tonight.
it's really hot today.
I miss erin like, a lot.
It went okay, nothing conclusive as of yet. gonna go get a thai massage tonight.
it's really hot today.
I miss erin like, a lot.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
TITY
This is Thailand Yeah? (TITY)
This is what we say whenever we encounter something crazy, unbelievable, unfair, rediculous, unconceivable, or just plain silly. TITY.
As you know, Today is Friday, the day where Reffa is to give a half hour presentation in French to a class. She prepared it. I went on a two hour search of Surat Thani yesterday , asking in poor Thai if they had any books in French. I found one!!! It was expensive, but I think it's worth it. (expensive being 500 baht... about 15$). It actually turns out that she's teaching a high school class, rather than giving an introductory presentation (there goes the hard worked speech..) and therefore has to prepare a LESSON without knowing what their levels are (or knowing very much french... lol). Guess when she recieved this TEXT MESSAGE? at 9am this morning. She's being picked up from one school (where she teaches 9-2) and being transported to the other school to teach this lesson at 2:30. No warning. the test message said "oh is-a-meaning- you will be teach cloth" which is Orapin's way of saying "you have to teach the students how to describe clothing" .
hahahahahaha Thailand never fails to amuse.
Yesterday we went on a family adventure to Tesco Lotus with x, his brother, his mom, and his brothers girlfriend. 6 of us on three motorbikes on the highway on the way to the big store to purchase a sink. We came home with a reciept and delivery date for a fridge. go figure?!
anyways, i'm off. There's no washroom in the computer lab. ughhh gotta walk home.
xoxoxx
This is what we say whenever we encounter something crazy, unbelievable, unfair, rediculous, unconceivable, or just plain silly. TITY.
As you know, Today is Friday, the day where Reffa is to give a half hour presentation in French to a class. She prepared it. I went on a two hour search of Surat Thani yesterday , asking in poor Thai if they had any books in French. I found one!!! It was expensive, but I think it's worth it. (expensive being 500 baht... about 15$). It actually turns out that she's teaching a high school class, rather than giving an introductory presentation (there goes the hard worked speech..) and therefore has to prepare a LESSON without knowing what their levels are (or knowing very much french... lol). Guess when she recieved this TEXT MESSAGE? at 9am this morning. She's being picked up from one school (where she teaches 9-2) and being transported to the other school to teach this lesson at 2:30. No warning. the test message said "oh is-a-meaning- you will be teach cloth" which is Orapin's way of saying "you have to teach the students how to describe clothing" .
hahahahahaha Thailand never fails to amuse.
Yesterday we went on a family adventure to Tesco Lotus with x, his brother, his mom, and his brothers girlfriend. 6 of us on three motorbikes on the highway on the way to the big store to purchase a sink. We came home with a reciept and delivery date for a fridge. go figure?!
anyways, i'm off. There's no washroom in the computer lab. ughhh gotta walk home.
xoxoxx
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
oy
Reffa is giving a half hour speech in French this Friday. She was told today about it. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA we are looking french words/sentences up frantically on the internet and going to bookstores to find french books (but they don't even have English ones- their second language so it's not looking good for a french english dictionary.... lol)
I can't believe we are french teachers now?! We have a bit of a laughing fit about this idea every day. We'll let you know how the classes go!!!
So , I think I am going to quit next week from the school we are working at. Reffa is happy there, but I am not. She's a lot more tolerant of the confusion/annoyances/politics that go on around there- I am not very tolerant of it. I think it's confusing and unfair and I would rather play with my new kittens. HAHA plus Orapin has been begging me to work at her other school which I will have a 25% raise and work more hours- BUT it's EASY english with high school kids and not seriuos and none of this awful conflict stuff. might do that.
okay yes you heard that right, we have two new kittens! They are sisters, one month old and they are really cute. One looks just like Crookshanks (Char's cat for those of you who don't know- brown, orange, white but mostly dark blackish brown.) the other is pure white. They are both short haired and have bits of siamese cat in them (naturally, since we are in Siam...) . They are still really shy of us, but starting to warm up. it's been about 2 days now and they like to hide but last night they both slept on the bed with me! :) yay they will be snuggly and lovey in no time. Where they were living before didn't feed them or play with them or anything so that's why they are so shy right now.
We love the new motorbike.
Scott just moved into a new house, one street over. Loves it very much.
My armpits are better. I was visitng the hospital twice a day for cleanings but now it's every 3 days and the infection has completely gone already.
June 26th I meet with the clinic that I'm trying to sue. They will make me an offer to make the whole thing go away and I can accept and get it out of my life or i can fight for more money. dunno yet.
ps. Aunt Tine- this one's for you- Herbalife is actually being PERSCRIBED as a health treatment by doctors here regularly. My employer just got put on it and she takes it very seriuosly. Our neighbor also sells it, and has an Herbalife car!!!!
PPS. CONGRATULATIONS MAT AND CHAR. WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I READ ALL ABOUT YOU MAT IN THE NEWSPAPER FROM BACK HOME ONLINE!!!! =0 =)=) AMAZING!!
xoxox
I can't believe we are french teachers now?! We have a bit of a laughing fit about this idea every day. We'll let you know how the classes go!!!
So , I think I am going to quit next week from the school we are working at. Reffa is happy there, but I am not. She's a lot more tolerant of the confusion/annoyances/politics that go on around there- I am not very tolerant of it. I think it's confusing and unfair and I would rather play with my new kittens. HAHA plus Orapin has been begging me to work at her other school which I will have a 25% raise and work more hours- BUT it's EASY english with high school kids and not seriuos and none of this awful conflict stuff. might do that.
okay yes you heard that right, we have two new kittens! They are sisters, one month old and they are really cute. One looks just like Crookshanks (Char's cat for those of you who don't know- brown, orange, white but mostly dark blackish brown.) the other is pure white. They are both short haired and have bits of siamese cat in them (naturally, since we are in Siam...) . They are still really shy of us, but starting to warm up. it's been about 2 days now and they like to hide but last night they both slept on the bed with me! :) yay they will be snuggly and lovey in no time. Where they were living before didn't feed them or play with them or anything so that's why they are so shy right now.
We love the new motorbike.
Scott just moved into a new house, one street over. Loves it very much.
My armpits are better. I was visitng the hospital twice a day for cleanings but now it's every 3 days and the infection has completely gone already.
June 26th I meet with the clinic that I'm trying to sue. They will make me an offer to make the whole thing go away and I can accept and get it out of my life or i can fight for more money. dunno yet.
ps. Aunt Tine- this one's for you- Herbalife is actually being PERSCRIBED as a health treatment by doctors here regularly. My employer just got put on it and she takes it very seriuosly. Our neighbor also sells it, and has an Herbalife car!!!!
PPS. CONGRATULATIONS MAT AND CHAR. WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I READ ALL ABOUT YOU MAT IN THE NEWSPAPER FROM BACK HOME ONLINE!!!! =0 =)=) AMAZING!!
xoxox
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
En Francais
Picking up lots of extra hours after school private toutoring.
Jessica is teaching a 21 year old girl, who she is still getting to know and I am teaching an 11 year old boy named Fin. His parents own the Diamond Plaza Hotel. Which is the big hotel in Surat where we sometimes go swimming cause the pool is on the roof and ususally empty.
Also, funny as it may seem, we will be teaching french starting next month too. Private classes with a lady-boy 1 hour a day, and 6 hours a week in a class of about 30 students at a government school. Still trying to wrap my head around that one. I'm trying to rememeber my french songs from junior high and hoping that they are young kids....or if not young kids, at a beginner level. I hope they don't try to have conversations with me.
We're thinking about teaching German too, if anyone wants lessons! (HA HA)
Jessica is teaching a 21 year old girl, who she is still getting to know and I am teaching an 11 year old boy named Fin. His parents own the Diamond Plaza Hotel. Which is the big hotel in Surat where we sometimes go swimming cause the pool is on the roof and ususally empty.
Also, funny as it may seem, we will be teaching french starting next month too. Private classes with a lady-boy 1 hour a day, and 6 hours a week in a class of about 30 students at a government school. Still trying to wrap my head around that one. I'm trying to rememeber my french songs from junior high and hoping that they are young kids....or if not young kids, at a beginner level. I hope they don't try to have conversations with me.
We're thinking about teaching German too, if anyone wants lessons! (HA HA)
Monday, June 8, 2009
Kuala Lumpur
June 8th
Way better than Penang. People are nicer(though still kinda mean??) and its cleaner and theres vegetarian food, and useable public transit. The public transit is exactly like the LRT's in Calgary.
Way better than Penang. People are nicer(though still kinda mean??) and its cleaner and theres vegetarian food, and useable public transit. The public transit is exactly like the LRT's in Calgary.
We went to go do our visa's today at the Thai Embassy....closed. (DOH!)
So we walked around and went to parks, a lake, a Muslim museum and went to the market.
The bus ride here was terrible. We actually took an extra 8 hour bus out of Penang into this city, JUST to avoid Penang. We could've done all our paperwork there, but we just don't like it at all. Daryl can back us up on how much it sucks there.
We went looking for a vegetarian restaurant and ran into a lady that was also vegetarian, we told her we were looking for Chinese vegetarian food and she took us to a place and showed us (about a 20 minute walk, she walked us there!) and then we invited her to eat with us because she just got off work. She was really shy to talk with us but she showed us her favourite dish and we all shared our foods so we all got the best of everything. Then her brother showed up to pick her up and she paid for our supper! She was really nice. The nicest person we've ever met in Malaysia. (We are also with a friend we met from England. She teaches Yoga in Koh Phagnan and her name is Sam)
Hopefully we can get our Visa's done tomorrow because we need to go back to work.
Scott sold us his motorbike. We're getting rid of the old Yamaha for his Honda Click. Its a lot smoother of a ride, it has a carborateur, the lights work (so you can drive it at night), it doesn't backfire when you drive, its a cooler color and its quieter. We gave him 10,000 baht and just have to give him another 10,000 sometime in the next few months.
The other bike was no good. we've gotten it fixed too many times and we were paying 2,000baht a month (which is what you pay to lease a brand new bike from a dealership) so we decided to trade 'er in.
The other bike was no good. we've gotten it fixed too many times and we were paying 2,000baht a month (which is what you pay to lease a brand new bike from a dealership) so we decided to trade 'er in.
The kids are all writing tests next week so we are worried about how they will do. Because they have only been learning for 2 weeks and their test results will decide how good of teachers we are or not....but we started doing "extra classes" in the last period of school, where we basically give extra help to our students who are struggling to improve their marks.
The school is now doing Tae Kwon Do lessons which we do NOT appreciate. (mainly because the little boys are born ninjas anyways, so its gonna make classes harder)
We are going home in 2 hrs from Kuala Lumpur to HatJai, then HatJai to SuratThani. Should get there in about 12 hours hopefully! The border always takes a while, plus we have to wait until 6am for it to open (taking overnight bus)
June 9th
We both got 3 more months added on to our Visa's today. We checked out a very big 5-story mall, twin towers, art gallery and went back to the market to find a sweater for Jessica (rainy seasons on its way!)
We told the girl at the Embassy that we were in a hurry to get back and she bumped our paperwork to the front and now we get to leave tonight instead of tomorrow night!
We're kinda glad about this because we didn't like the place we were staying in. We weren't treated very nice and we found a mouse in our room.
:D
We are going home in 2 hrs from Kuala Lumpur to HatJai, then HatJai to SuratThani. Should get there in about 12 hours hopefully! The border always takes a while, plus we have to wait until 6am for it to open (taking overnight bus)
June 9th
We both got 3 more months added on to our Visa's today. We checked out a very big 5-story mall, twin towers, art gallery and went back to the market to find a sweater for Jessica (rainy seasons on its way!)
We told the girl at the Embassy that we were in a hurry to get back and she bumped our paperwork to the front and now we get to leave tonight instead of tomorrow night!
We're kinda glad about this because we didn't like the place we were staying in. We weren't treated very nice and we found a mouse in our room.
:D
Monday, June 1, 2009
my new lawyer
haha
okay here's a juicy blog for you- though I am between teaching periods at school so I may have to cut it shorter than I'd like.
So you know how I was saying that the LHR hurt really bad and the joules were really high? WELL. I now have 2nd degree burns on one arm, and 3rd degree on the other. They hurt like, a lot. I showed my employer (they are so nosy she begged and bothered until I would show even though I was way too embarassed to do so..) and when she saw it she jumped on the phone to her lawyer and said we're sueing. Yep you read that right, I'm sueing the beauty clinic that did this treatment on me for it's poor results.
remember how I said the dentist messed up the other day? I still had to pay for it (obviuosly) because they had to take impressions, spend an hour on this and that and make a mouthpiece for me ordered on high-speed from the lab. So yesterday I went back to the language school and Orapin (employer) said "Jessica, you go to morre faugn this week"? (morre faugn is dentis) and I said "... yes. how do you know?" and she said "I got a phone cal from the clinic you went to saying they'd like to give you your money back is-a-meaning maybe they found out about your law case and are worried you will go after them. LOLOLLLLLLLLLLLLL
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
the dentist got scared that I might sue them for making the wrong thing and they gave me all my money back LOLOOLLLL isn't that hilariuos? The dentist also must have spent ages trying to track me down because he didn't know anything about me- name address place of work NOTHING so he obviuosly just "described me" to people until they led him to Orapin to give the money to, to give to me LOL hahahahahaahahahahahahahaha. this place is so so so funny.
gotta get back to class now- i'll keep you posted on the law stuff.
xo
okay here's a juicy blog for you- though I am between teaching periods at school so I may have to cut it shorter than I'd like.
So you know how I was saying that the LHR hurt really bad and the joules were really high? WELL. I now have 2nd degree burns on one arm, and 3rd degree on the other. They hurt like, a lot. I showed my employer (they are so nosy she begged and bothered until I would show even though I was way too embarassed to do so..) and when she saw it she jumped on the phone to her lawyer and said we're sueing. Yep you read that right, I'm sueing the beauty clinic that did this treatment on me for it's poor results.
remember how I said the dentist messed up the other day? I still had to pay for it (obviuosly) because they had to take impressions, spend an hour on this and that and make a mouthpiece for me ordered on high-speed from the lab. So yesterday I went back to the language school and Orapin (employer) said "Jessica, you go to morre faugn this week"? (morre faugn is dentis) and I said "... yes. how do you know?" and she said "I got a phone cal from the clinic you went to saying they'd like to give you your money back is-a-meaning maybe they found out about your law case and are worried you will go after them. LOLOLLLLLLLLLLLLL
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
the dentist got scared that I might sue them for making the wrong thing and they gave me all my money back LOLOOLLLL isn't that hilariuos? The dentist also must have spent ages trying to track me down because he didn't know anything about me- name address place of work NOTHING so he obviuosly just "described me" to people until they led him to Orapin to give the money to, to give to me LOL hahahahahaahahahahahahahaha. this place is so so so funny.
gotta get back to class now- i'll keep you posted on the law stuff.
xo
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