Yesterday was our second day of teaching at Im Jai school, teaching today was rather different from yesterday in the two more advanced groups of children as they cut through the teaching material yesterday like a knife through butter - niccceee!! However the bottom group were rather more like a knife through cheese, or granite. So the teaching plan worked well for them and me and my counter part, Andrew Weston, (better known as the dream team, we have no idea why...) delivered it so as they could tell the time to the precise minute! ;) geniuses in the making! Then as we moved on to the second best group we could tell they needed rather more English conversation than learning the word "Clock" so we played time/ number based games whilst having conversations as well, encouraging English and cruelly punishing any use of Thai, although there was a three strike rule, of course. Finally we got to the oldest, most skilled group of Thai children who preceded to bully and insult us the moment we got in the door, therefore we had a rather funny English group conversation, with some haughty participants even I must say! Then we all stopped for lunch and, feeling rather confident in my new found "Thai skillz" asked a boy if he was enjoying his lunch, he then preceded to get me a chair without reply... not sure what happened there. After lunch we played group games such as 'fetch', 'blow-up-balloons-and-shove-them-up-a-Thai-kid's-shirt' and so on. These were mildly ridiculous, verging on insane as my group began to cheat more and more as hoops etc mysteriously broke - I honestly had no idea! Then it was time for a huge group photo and a tearful goodbye, actually I didn't cry but as you can tell I'm enjoying exaggerating! ;) Then as we left we decided to pop in to a rather handy nearby kfc for some English 'afternoon tea' :)
Finally we all made our selves presentable and headed over to the May's house to watch a christian film. Anyway the end was again rather emotional. So, once we had arrived home, we all slept like logs due to the emotional toll on us during the day.*
*This was, in fact, not entirely true as most of us stayed up to enjoy some jokes from sikipedia.
THE ENDDDDDDD!!!!!!
JOSEPH FOSTER, playwright, Doctor and overall lyrical genius.
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