I'm writing this feeling quite over excited! Thanks to the university in my town having a massive graduation next week I get from friday till next thursday off so I've got my ticket for an overnight bus to bangkok tomorrow after school and will be spending some time in the big smoke! I get in at 5am and my mate who i'm staying with is at school till 3.30 so I'm wasting the day away meeting a guy (phil) who is a tour guide here now who i met here last time I was ...

Well here I am again, in my flat with only the internet for company. I guess I should be greatfull for that really, loads of people seem less fortunate in their placements! I'm doing ok this week, week 2 is almost over and except for wednesday I haven't wanted to go home! The wednesday incident was due to introducing a new lesson for the first time and having a sea full of faces look at me blankly when I knew they knew what I was on about! After reverting back ...

Well I'm back at school for my second week, feeling like I'm slightly more in control although I have to take this thing a day at a time I think. By the end of last week I had adopted a take no prisoners attitude towards teaching, they were all gonna listen or I was gonna take their phone, magazine or book off them and make them stand up and speak to me in English right then! While this is good in theory and sometimes in practise the old language barrier is pr...

Well, so much to say so little time! First week here has been incredibly hard! No one here speaks english and the school is huge! 2000 kids and its just a primary school. The first weekend was very lonely being placed in several different apartments and not knowing what was going on really. I'm now in a lovely place thanks to the lovely Pen and her team. Unfortunately Pen had to leave me and go back to bangkok last saturday so I had two days to kill in my new ...

Now enroute to my school, up in the deepest depths of north east thailand and very very nervous. I'm gonna be teaching kids aged 3 to 11 in a primary school in Sakon Nakhon. I'm on my own with the nearest other interns a four hour bus ride away and have been traveling from bangkok all day. Still 4 hours away from my city so in a hotel with another lovely intern who were dropping off on the way tomorrow, its late here and i have to iron my school clothes for to...