So we started our actual teacher practise in schools this week and it's been interesting to say the least. Who ever made up the phrase 'those that can't teach' most definitely had never taught, and even more obviously have never tried teaching 7-11 year old Thai children. Monday... we were blissfully unaware of what we had in store when told we were teaching kids at an English camp, other than to prepare a half an hour activity each. We turn up to a hall of 95 c...

I've somewhat abused the blog since being on Koh Lipe and we leave in a days time so rather than list everything I've done here I figured I'd explain to you the Thai lessons I've learned since being here instead. Lesson number one..."Mai pen rai". Literally translates as "no worries", nothing ever goes to plan in Thailand but it always turns out fine in the end. We learnt this after our first few days here. And I think it's something that's going to help with ...

I apologise if this post is quite abrupt, I'd just finished writing an extremely long descriptive one and it somehow deleted itself when it was loading! GRRR! So I'm having to start again... So basically after the first few days being surrounded in master disaster and negative feelings by alot of the group because of the silly teacha language school people, I've decided I'm loving life once again. Island life as it were. We arrived on Sunday after the most h...

Today was incredible. I didn't think it was humanly possible to fit in so many mini adventures into one day. So I have a feeling this may turn into a bit of an essay, sorry. We were picked up by our thai driver at 8am this morn, in the most pimped out, suuped up mini van ever, uv lights, glitter lightening, the works. And then taken on a 3ish hour journey to the province of Kanachanburi. I saw war monuments, ate lunch in the jungle, laid down next to full gr...

Sa-wat-dee-ka!! So I'm in Bangkok, safe and sound in the Land of Smiles. Just. No one warned me about the dangers of Thai transportation before I got here! Within 24 hours I've experienced a thai taxi, train, boat and tuk tuk. And I can tell you that I've experienced about 10 near death experiences (sorry mum and dad). They honestly all drive like they are playing on grand theft auto/ dodgems. After everyone feeling abit daunted and homesick lastnight we deci...