Update on the space-time continuim
This is more like a group email than a travel entry. But hey, a good blog can multi-task, right?
Tomorrow I'm off to work a three-day English camp with a cowboy (yippy ki yay) theme. Then I'll spend my last two days at the temple, cleaning and organizing.
Next, an overnight in Bangkok before heading south for R and R on the island of Koh Phan Ngan. After five days I'll connect with friends in Koh Samui, visit the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi, and head back to Bangkok for two days work at a job fair.
Here is where my schedule deviates. I had planned to fly back to the States at that point, but I've made some modifications. A friend (my ex-wife, actually) is taking over my position at the elementary school. She won't arrive until mid-November, and I'll continue teaching into the new semester until then.
Last night was the last day of the old semester. After a full day of physical games and contests (Sport Day), the children went home and the staff had an end-of-term party. The Director made a speech about me, but all I could recognize was my name. It's like that Far Side cartoon, "What we say to dogs and what they hear." Blah blah blah Mr. Greg blah blah Mr Greg, etc..
Anyway, he presented me with two extra weeks pay as a 'souvenier.' Then different teachers came up with gifts; the fifth-grade teachers, the 6th grade teachers, the foreign language teachers, teachers that I had been teaching English... Quite a haul. Next, every teacher in the school presented me with a rose attached to some message i.e. "Wonderful Man, Smart One, We Will Miss You, etc.. I've never been presented with sixty roses before. It was very thoughtful, and made the subsequent kareoke and dancing almost mandatory.
Over the last week I've also been presented with a steady stream of gifts, cards, and photos from the students. They really are sweet kids.
So. Three days of English camp and then a holiday! Yippy Ki Yay (or whatever it was that Bruce Willis said).
Tomorrow I'm off to work a three-day English camp with a cowboy (yippy ki yay) theme. Then I'll spend my last two days at the temple, cleaning and organizing.
Next, an overnight in Bangkok before heading south for R and R on the island of Koh Phan Ngan. After five days I'll connect with friends in Koh Samui, visit the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi, and head back to Bangkok for two days work at a job fair.
Here is where my schedule deviates. I had planned to fly back to the States at that point, but I've made some modifications. A friend (my ex-wife, actually) is taking over my position at the elementary school. She won't arrive until mid-November, and I'll continue teaching into the new semester until then.
Last night was the last day of the old semester. After a full day of physical games and contests (Sport Day), the children went home and the staff had an end-of-term party. The Director made a speech about me, but all I could recognize was my name. It's like that Far Side cartoon, "What we say to dogs and what they hear." Blah blah blah Mr. Greg blah blah Mr Greg, etc..
Anyway, he presented me with two extra weeks pay as a 'souvenier.' Then different teachers came up with gifts; the fifth-grade teachers, the 6th grade teachers, the foreign language teachers, teachers that I had been teaching English... Quite a haul. Next, every teacher in the school presented me with a rose attached to some message i.e. "Wonderful Man, Smart One, We Will Miss You, etc.. I've never been presented with sixty roses before. It was very thoughtful, and made the subsequent kareoke and dancing almost mandatory.
Over the last week I've also been presented with a steady stream of gifts, cards, and photos from the students. They really are sweet kids.
So. Three days of English camp and then a holiday! Yippy Ki Yay (or whatever it was that Bruce Willis said).
1 Comments:
I hope you sang your heart out! I am picturing you in a dashing RLI Red dining jacket, whaling out something in Thai, and I must say: just loving the imagery. keep on a rockin!
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