So, here’s the latest blog I’ve been promising! Our work in the village of Kew Sua has been progressing very well; these extremely bright kids have been learning the English alphabet, phonics, counting, parts of the body, commands, directions, greetings and so on. Their first language is their native Karen hilltribe tongue, their second language is Thai and the English we are teaching them is their third language. Last week, in another amazing coincidence, Josie, another teacher from the Seattle area visited Kew Sua with a promise to return in February and continue our work after we leave. This brings the number of “farangs” in the tiny hill tribe village of Kew Sua up to four, all from Washington state! Dan stayed in Chiang Mai to get some work done, so it was just us girls
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