Tough week at school. Teaching 7 year old English kids must be hard. Teaching 7 year old Thai kids who have no idea what you are saying and have no english books to use is next to impossible. I've started to learn a lot of Thai just so I can explain what i'm saying to them, but because the language is so tonal and distinctive, they don't understand a lot of my Thai either. Needless to say, incredibly rewarding when they do get it....unbelieveably frustrating the rest of the time! The best part of the week was singing "heads, shoulders, knees and toes" with the four year olds. I thought a few were going to bust a spleen laughing at me. Had the day off of school and went for a long bike ride out
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