Teaching in Thailand

So a few weeks ago my head of department sat me down and asked me if I could help teach Burmese children English in a school nearby. Firstly I wish that everyone reading this could meet this lady as she such a character. She is called Ubonrat and is a very small and conservative and very traditionally Thai with a bum that she swishes when she walks...She refers to me and Sammy 'Noo' which is basically what Thais refer to little children as and means MOUSE. So when Ubes (my nickname for this fabulous teacher, I do genuinely love this slightly intimating teacher) asked me whilst peering at me over her glasses to help I couldn't say no...

So Friday arrived and Sammy and I arrived expecting we'd be a classroom assistant or maybe helping out a few Burmese children but oh no no no the children at this school aren't Burmese and most importantly we were both individually assigned a class (Sammy helped out this one time teaching a class) BUT I was assigned a class to teach. When I was told this I nearly burst into tears as I didn't have a clue what to say or do...so at 1pm on Friday for 2 minutes I just stood in front of a class like HELLO-I was petrified. So I went up to the board and wrote my name on it then introduced myself and asked all the children's names-sadly can't remember any of them now! And then after that I enjoyed every second of my hours teaching. Can hardly remember what I taught them but I do remember dropping my pen and them all laughing and one shouting out FUN and I said oh no its not fun...at this point I think the girl thought I was going to get angry but instead I told her that this was FUNNY and if this happened again, she must say funny not fun...even though I'm sure having a dappy English teacher is fun:)

So was defiantly one of the best and random hours in Thailand so far and we will be teaching this class twice a week! Not sure what to teach next class but quite enjoyed my freestyling and I actually think I make a splendid teacher...I hope:)

So in conclusion I still love Ubes even if she twist the truth that I'd be helping out teaching some Burmese children...and I'm excited to teach again:)

P.s I don't have photos from the school as of yet so instead I've put it more from Loi Krathong festival.