Sunday, July 15, 2007

My way

Got back from an English seminar all organisized (y'all know the Dan right?) by my neighbour Kaisit. An interesting gathering. All the typically Thai ingredients where there: rote learning, big ideas, huge expectations, even bigger speakers, karaoke, dancing, mangled English songs, loads of food, whiskey, a test everybody passed and (most importantly) loads of fun and laughter.

Now for the interesting part: I found myself teaching groups of principals from Educational area 5. Very eager students. very quiet compared to my normal first grade class and very aware that this was it: their chance to talk to a farang. Some of them were very shy. Especially when I put them on the spot. They didn't see that one coming, but I always do. They were supposed to speak English. Not me. In the end they did well. And they were thankful beyond belief. All in a days work.

O yeah: why this picture with this story? Well: I drove my first 30km on the highway to get to the seminar. That's why. Whoohooo!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Als dat jou auto is eet ik mijn weblogbeheerderspet op.

LageB said...

Okee ik geef het eindelijk maar eens toe: AL die foto's met de helm zijn nep. Puur omdat jezelf (laten) fotograferen onder het rijden zoon ge-eikel is :) De ketchup mag dus weer terug in de koelkast. De pet weer aan de kapstok. Marreh: nou moet je dus weer langs de super, voor het avond eten.