Blogs from Ban Muang Samsip, North-East Thailand, Thailand, Asia

It is exactly 2 weeks and two days until I board that plane home. Looking behind me I see 12months filled with amazing, weird, and hilarious memories. Ahead of me lies the next chapter: Sol Fest, University and life in Glasgow. I still find it hard to comprehend all the happenings, the ups, the downs and the craziness of this year… That first time we walked into this house we were pasty-skinned, sweaty, and unnerved at the thought of teaching 700 kids a week for the rest of the year. We had been sharing the same, hard bed and had only known each other for a week. Now I regard Ben as one of my best friends and cannot imagine doing any of this without him. That’s not to say things have always been easy. We ... read more

The past two weeks has been teaching as usual around the notably cooler Muang Samsip. M5 have been writing up New Year’s resolutions, (some have been to listen less in class), and learning about English weather. My guess is that whilst I shiver in the 21degree heat, you are all sliding around in a winter wonderland/chaos depending how you look at Britain when it shuts down over several centimetres of snow. No dangers of that here! I have successfully bribed M3 into speaking English with fruit Mentos. Their lust for sweets means most are actually attempting to speak English rather than whisper it to themselves. M1 are a real mix. Some classes are powering ahead, keeping me on my toes as to what lessons I need to plan. Thankfully this is the majority of students and ... read more