Well, we finally finished the training. It was intense with a lot of working in pairs but the last day was just doing a fun activity for kids (singing/miming/games etc..)....but then we were off straight to the train station for the overnight train to Surat Thani - 12 hours on a sleeper train, and my first close encounter with a Ladyboy!
Yes all the staff on the train were He-Shes. They called each other sister or ma'am and fluttered their eye-brows shamelessly at me. One even pinched me on the cheek when I pointed out they had giving themselves a 10 baht tip..."But I'm worth it Darling!". Some of us slept (girls)....some didn't (lads).
In the morning the sunrise over the baron landscape was welcome but foreign.
Then on a bus for an hour to get to the ferry. 2.5 hours on the ferry to get to Koh Phangan (d'island) and pickup truck taxi to our accom, which was clean and had a fan. The lady who runs it was very sweet and we had cold showers and warm food. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
We had arrived the day after the Full moon party so all the farangs looked like death warmed up. Went down to Hat Rin beach for the Full Moon after party...atmosphere was relaxed and only a handy crowd gathered....after a bucket (the type you made sandcastles with as a kid) of Samsung (whiskey) and coke I was ready for bed so caught a taxi home and slept and slept.
Sunday I looked for accomodation which is plentiful. Got a place in Beach Holiday Resort which is small but has air-con and looks out onto the beach. It's right beside the kite surfing school but its the wrong season for it so hope to do Sea-kayaking at the weekend, as well as explore the island.
So, have settled in...have a gaff, got a moped (I can get 60 miles to the gallon on that hog), and have sussed out the locality for grub and pubs. Also I was assigned my school and visited yesterday. SriThanu (pronounced SeeThanu) 40 students - a nursery and class 1-3. I get to teach nursery twice a week; I wasn't trained for that!
The school is very relaxed with kids running in and out of classrooms. They all get feed at school so I get a free lunch as well. The Thai teachers all liked my shirt and said I looked like a real Thai teacher.
Had my first lesson today but am far too tired to describe it properly now. I survived it but I'm knackered from it. It's so hot and you are kept going trying to keep their attention. Will blog again soon.
Hope everyone is having fun,
M.
Children are all foreigners. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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3 comments:
"Some of us slept (girls)....some didn't (lads)."
Us girls, Mick? Have you turned already?
Sounds like great fun...the teaching I mean, not the transexuality. Things are grand back here. Peter is coping perfectly well without you, and hasn't been sitting outside Menlo's on his own every lunchtime, crying.
p.s. For Mullin's sake... 'barren', not 'baron'...
All the best, travelling Mick! Keep up the good work.
Niallers, how's in going. Great to hear from you. Going to Meath V Dublin replay? Nice of Mick to allow us to use his blog as a cheap alternative to phonecalls.
Mick sounds deadly indeed, living like a bum, eating liga and milk for lunch, and having the locals take the pizz out of your shirt ("Hey, I like your Shirt!!").
I see you have gotten lazy since becoming a teacher, not bothering to keep a daily blog, and are now complaining about being "tired", and "drained". Typical teacher eh. When are you going on strike for more money/holidays and less work? Try doing 10 hour days, with 3 weeks hols a year, ya slacker!!
P.S. Sounds spiffing young man, we are all only jealous. Your godson is keeping well.
Yes 'barren' not 'baron' and I meant to say flutter eyelases rather than eyebrows...and look at you pretenting to know Galway!
Good to hear that young Daire is keeping well, and that your still ranting about teachers.
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