The last 5 months….where do we start! Trying to cram 5 months into 1 blog entry isn’t easy especially when so much has happened. After a months TEFL training course in Thailand (where we met) we were both (by pure chance) placed in the same area in North East Thailand (Issan). We spent the last 4 months teaching English to secondary school students in Kalasin Province in Issan. Issan is the poorest, driest area of Thailand and the main industry is farming. Issan people still lead a very traditional Thai way of life, not many tourists visit the area but it has some beautiful countryside and Buddhist temples. Although we lived quite close to each other (about 20ks apart) we ended up working in very different locations, the two towns even spoke a different variation of
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