hey everybody
OK SO I JUST FINISHED my first week as an english teacher, and its SO fun!,
i tech kids that are about 12-12 years old english, i actually like it more than going to school.

so monday i went to the elementry school and found another english teacher and told her who i was, great she said, class is just about to start, she led me to a class with like 40 kids(yep 40!) in it, intro duced me as pei ryan(pei in thai means big brother, cool huh?) and then started to leave the class!!
i called out right before she left the class, and i asked her what i should do, she looked at me this look like"are ypu kiddin me"
she replied teach them, i go alllllrrigght.....
what should i teach them?
anything.
anything?
yes.
whatever i want?
yes.
Sweet!
what?
um.. nothing..
so here i am looking at40 or so kids waiting for the farang(is thai slang for foriener) to start to talk, so i start out by intro ducing myself
i go MY NAME IS RYAN,
they respond MY NAME IS RYAN... i laugh and say no,no,no
they go "no no no"
so i wrote it on the board and pounded my chest wgen i said it and they got the idea, so i started asking thier names, with a bit of difficulty and the same problems that i had before, they got what i was asking,n but when they answered me, it was in a voice barely above a whisper, and for some reason they wouldnt talk any louder, and then i realized why, in thailand children, especially in schools are taught not to experss themselves, and kind of to be seen, not heard, and looking around at othe other teachers, i realized, well,
there jerks!
imean with some exceptions the treaches will hit the kids or push them around to get them in line, and basically teach them that everyone is the same, and if you diffrent, thats bad.
then i realized, they thought id be like that too,
so i immeadiatly jumed up onto my desk(which brought tons of laughter) and yelled out MY NAME IS RYAN!
WHATS YOURS?!
and pointed at a boy in the front, laughing he stood up and whisperd robert(i actally forget all the kids names cause there like atleas six syllables long, so im gonna make up an english name for him)
i put my hand to my ear(im still standin ontop of the teachers desk mind you!)and said ah-rai(thai for what?)
he said again robert
AH-rai!?
robert alittle louder
AH-rai!?
robert!
what!??!!!
ROBERT!!!!!(this time just about as loud as me, at the top of his lungs)
i jump of my desk and say really fast "well robert its my pleasure to meat you i hope your doing well" andshake his hand
this makes all the kids burst out laughing along with robert, when they finally calm down i strat to teach them more things like letters #'s shapes colors and shapes, all using the same method of running around the class, getting in shouting matches with them, walking on the desks,and basically mking aa fool of myself and getting wierd looks from people walking aroud and seeing in the classroom
and well, they loved every minute of it, the students after thier intitial shyness left, were on thier feet ashouting back colors and shapes and whatnot, after that class i went to teach two more that day, (using my own patented teaching style every time, with tons of success, everywhere) then i took off aft6er lunch, cause no more classes were assigned to me, that was cool, because when i was GOING to school i didnt get out till like 4 or so,now im done BY 2 which leave me plenty of time to ride my bike( i did 18 km. the opther day and was proud of myself even though a km is less tan a mile haha)
the next day, i had a new batch of classes to break out of thier shells, so i did the same less on, but this time, we also covere animals and the sounds they make(id do my best to draw it on the board, then id ask what it was, then id point to my throat, and then the calss would get up and moo, bark, or crow as loud as we could together
my third day teaching when i rode into school in my bike all the kids stopped and actually gave me an applause!
basicllay school goes like that, oh one time iwas writing the word school on the board and spealled it shool, a girl in the front row jumed up and exclaimed "pei lyan(they cant say r's to well)No Sooool! she grabbed the pen from me and proceeded to erase my mistake and write school "is Skkkkooool! she cried triumphantly, look at that corrected in spelling by a twelve year old thai girl, as you can see my speling hasnt emproved much..
well im starting to get carpal tunnel so ill leave you with one more funny strory that didnt happen that school
on saturday all the exchange students got togethr to hang out in khonkaen,we all decided on getting foot massages, and when i say WE i men them and by THEM i mean THE GIRLS(im the only guy exchange stugent in like a 60 km radius) so what the heck, ive never had it done befor what could go wrong right?
now for those of you that dont know me too well, i have got to be the most ticklish person i know, but that thought didnt cross my mind untill i sat down and the guy grabbed my foot, i brust out laughing, good thing it was just the exchange students there or i mught of gotten kicked out!
basically for a good deal of the HOUR! i had teary eyes, and in that silent laughter state, you the point where you almost piss yourself.
i felt really bad for the guy to, he couldent understand me when i tried to explain im ticklish, and he kept giving lookes to the other massustss(im sorry mrs bilderback)like great i ve got another 45 min. with this stupid frang!
i can understand him though, i almost kicked him in the head twice...

until next time
pei ryan