The teaching here is rather chaotic and quite hilarious. We go in the pick up truck to around 6 different schools in the area and teach classes of 30 up to about 90 of all different ages. Unfortunately this week seems to have been the week of learning road signs so I am now intimately acquainted with the ways of the Thai roads and how to say 'no farm machinery' and 'do not turn left' in Thai, always useful! The kids are so gorgeous though with the most lovely smiles, we arrive and are interrogated with 'what is your name' and 'where you come from' being shouted at us as we stand in front of the class! Their level of English is quite variable and apparently my accent is harder to understand than the Germans talking English (grr don't get me started on the germans again!) so I have a bit of trouble trying to have a conversation. The Canadian kids are quite a hit in the school too; we were bombarded with stickers from the 11 year old girls today, I think 9 year old Zak quite enjoyed it though was a bit embarrassed! His first experience of being a hearthrob...
Other teaching that we do is quite appropriately called the 'Lazy class' (it takes place in the Lazy House Bar) where we have english conversation classes with the local hotel and bar staff, taxi drivers and tour operators. This is really good though as it is often 1 on 1 the poor things must feel interrogated! I had quite a hilarious conversation trying to explain the difference between guys/guides (as she was pronouncing them both the same) with a tour operator who actually laughed herself under the table when she understood why I was confused!
Tomorrow I have persuaded the 'head' teacher, a slightly crazy expat northerner called Ken, that we dispense with road signs and do something different instead, we're going for occupations, who knows what we might come up with! We will just have to go with the flow...
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