With some of our Thai and Filipino collegues at the school
This was supposed to be a picture of us and Susan, the pre-kindergarten teacher, but lots of other people suddenly decided they wanted to be in the picture just before it was taken!
Giving alms September 30th 2007 Leaving School
After the kids left school we still had a week to put in. Not that we had anything to do - but we did have to turn up every day and twiddle our thumbs in the practically silent school. Basically this week was set aside for the students' reports to be written so they could be given to the parents on the Friday parent-teacher meeting. However, as the reports were largely in ... read more
Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more
It started in November 2006, when we quit our jobs, rented out our house, sold our belongings and set off in search of adventure in South East Asia.
Backpacking around SE Asia followed, along with working with elephants in Pattaya, a TEFL course in Thailand, teaching in Bangkok, Madrid, Bournemouth....
"Where next?" you might ask.
Well, the pull of the East was too great, so we hot-footed back to Thailand, and then onto Vietnam.
We spent a year teaching in a language centre in Haiphong in the North of Vietnam. Then we went searching for the bright lights of the big city and taught ... full info