Tuesday, April 21, 2009

My summer might finally end!!

Since New Years I've taught:

A 2 week English camp (2 hours a day)
One and a half weeks of English in Korea.
4 weeks of Science, Physics, and English here ins Thailand, but only 13 classes a week.

The rest of the time was vacation, most of it paid.

This is the final week of summer school, after this it will be 10 more days of paid vacation. I plan on going down south to Krabi and many other possible destinations. I have friends who I think are going to be coming down at random times to meet up as well. There's a half moon party a week from Friday on an island off of the east coast down there. This will be my first real beach experience in Thailand and I'm pretty excited.

After my next 10 day vacation the real school year will begin. This could prove to be a bit difficult to handle after all of these half-time and vacation days. I am excited to find out what classes I will be teaching and to get into a semi-normal routine.

I joined a gym and that has helped me start to get a routine going. Whenever I get tired of the one terrible English movie channel in my apartment I walk over to the gym for a quick sweat. I did a yoga class on Monday which was interesting. It was all in Thai so I was just checking out the other people in the class to discover what I had to do. Most of the moves were the same moves I've done back home. All in all it went OK. I think my weak muscles ended up being more of a hurdle than the language barrier. I haven't properly worked out in over a year. I like feeling sore again. The pain reminds me that I'm alive, haha.

So all is good over here. My favorite food of the week is . . . . . . .

Khao Bhat Tom Yum Gai. mmmmmmmm Fried rice with Chicken and Lemongrass and a ton of other awesome spices.

2 comments:

Mom said...

Thsnk you for the update!

warped said...

Hey there, what's new? Meredith will be home in about 3 weeks; the sun is shining and the snow is melting. finally... Have you started your official school schedule? Hope all is well. love auntie g