So this month has flown by since I last wrote. We have had several weekends in Bangkok, school field trips, and a lot of one on one time with teachers getting to know them even better. But alas, it's already our LAST WEEK of school at Inburi School and then we will have 2 1/2 months of break before moving to a new town! It seems like everything in life happens this way, but now that it's the end of the semester, we really can't believe how fast it has all flown by. Upon our last day we are now flooded with so many memories of the past semester…
From our first day, dancing all over the school for Loy Krathong, to leaving classrooms with a completely sweat stained shirt, students always yelling “hello hello!” and wanting to shake our hands in the hallways, ladyboys in makeup, ladyboys in high heels, and ladyboys SCREAMING in excitement in class. Felix’s birthday party thrown by the teachers where everyone ended up tipsy in the middle of the teaching day. Felix’s kareoke rendition of “Pour Some Sugar on Me” on Christmas. Showing Monsters INC. and Wall-E when we succumbed to their yelling “cartoon, cartoon!” at the beginning of every class. Field trips on buses blaring music and students having 4 hour dance parties because they never get to listen to music that loud and dance EXCEPT when they are on a bus. Students and their love for all things Michael Jackson, Harry Potter, and Lady Gaga. Students with nicknames like “Eye”, “Toe”, “Pop”, and “Caramel”. The adorable 7th grade “English club” girls who sat in the English department every lunch and taught us thai words while repeating “Teacher Brie Beauuuuuutiful, Teacher Felix very HANDSOME!”. Students blowing kisses, and giving us the “I love you” and peace sign symbols in the middle of class. Cell phone photo shoots also in the middle of class. The inburi school anthem (la la la laaaaaa INBURRIIIIIII!”). Colors of the week outfits that we often got wrong. Teachers whipping the students and loving it. Making speeches in the morning announcements such as “The Night before Christmas” and teaching students about Valentine’s Day while the students didn’t understand a word of it and gave us blank stares. Stray dogs all over Inburi school. Eating cakes, cookies, thai snacks, fruit, and coffee that was pushed on us all day in the English department. Our introduction to delicious thai food (and not just eating chicken and rice everyday) cooked for us by our amazing English teachers for lunch. PiTu and her giant reserve of energy which she spent singing and dancing and acting like a student herself (and her uncanny ability to take naps ANYWHERE when this energy ran out, including on the English department couch). PiTim calling herself “Fat old sexy woman” everyday and bringing us more homemade cakes and muffins than we have ever ate in our life. PiTi and her deep love for English (and English karaoke) and acting as a serogate mother and helping us in any way possible. Becoming friends with the one teacher Aee (sounds like Eh) who speaks the least amount of english but we found our has a hiliarious humor that we can still understand despite this. Showing the teachers how to play UNO and the million games of it we played thereafter. Teachers telling us that they hope we never forget them and telling us how much they will miss us.. realizing that this group of teachers has become like a second family to us. Seeing our students crying on our last day and realizing that leaving our students and friends is the hardest thing we have had to face all semester..
Our time in Inburi was more amazing than we could ever imagined. In this little town that at first seemed dusty and boring, we made friends that have immensly shaped our experience in Thailand and brought love to us that we couldn’t have imagined we would feel in just 4 short months here. The journey will continue.. but we know that no one will replace the friends we made here in little Inburi and we will certainly not forget it!
NOW, it is time for our summer break! We have 2 ½ months off before starting a new semester in a new town! And the first plan of action is to go to INDIA! Felix and I will be leaving on Monday and staying in India for 34 days. We are flying into Kolkata and from there traveling to Darjeeling, where we will be able to see Mt. Everest, Varnassi, the holy city on the Ganges river, Agra to see the Taj Mahal, Delhi, Jaipur, and a city to take an overnight camel safari through the dessert. And everything else is up in the air! We know it will be a crazy ride for the next month that will be full of surprises so we are just going to leave things open and see what adventures India will reveal to us.
After our trip in India, we will have one evening in Bangkok and then Felix’s parents will arrive for 2 weeks! We will travel back for one last visit to Inburi with them where we will have a party and be reunited with all our teacher friends for one last time. From Inburi we will go back to Kanchanaburi, one of our favorite spots in central Thailand where we saw Erawan Falls, the 7 tiered waterfall. Then we will spend their last week back in Southern Thailand visiting islands around Phuket province! We will go back to Ko Phi Phi, visit one of the nicest beaches in the world in Railay, and see the island Ko Lanta. Once Felix’s parents leave we will be “teacher evaluators” for the new training group of teachers who are doing their practice teaches in Phuket, just like we did 5 months ago! By then the break will have flown by and it will soon be time to move to our new teaching destination.
For next semester after some complications with our plans to move to Northern Thailand.. we will now be moving to Chaiyaphum in Esan! This is the place that a huge group of our teacher friends taught at last semester (and now 3 from last semester will still remain along with us and more friends moving there). We visited once last semester to see our friends and it is certainly a big different from Inburi from the foods that are native with the area, to slight differences in the language, and just the general fact that we will be in an actual CITY this time around. Because Esan is pretty far away we are mostly surrounded by national parks versus lots of cities, but we are happy to get to explore this new region and a place that is so vastly different from where we started out.
So, here we are, ending school in Inburi, and days later heading to India and then a new teaching city for our next (and probably last) semester in Thailand. This semester has been a whirlwind of experiences, and now we have a whole new chapter of the book to open..
Until next time… we miss you all and will update again when we can!
INDIA HERE WE COME!
From our first day, dancing all over the school for Loy Krathong, to leaving classrooms with a completely sweat stained shirt, students always yelling “hello hello!” and wanting to shake our hands in the hallways, ladyboys in makeup, ladyboys in high heels, and ladyboys SCREAMING in excitement in class. Felix’s birthday party thrown by the teachers where everyone ended up tipsy in the middle of the teaching day. Felix’s kareoke rendition of “Pour Some Sugar on Me” on Christmas. Showing Monsters INC. and Wall-E when we succumbed to their yelling “cartoon, cartoon!” at the beginning of every class. Field trips on buses blaring music and students having 4 hour dance parties because they never get to listen to music that loud and dance EXCEPT when they are on a bus. Students and their love for all things Michael Jackson, Harry Potter, and Lady Gaga. Students with nicknames like “Eye”, “Toe”, “Pop”, and “Caramel”. The adorable 7th grade “English club” girls who sat in the English department every lunch and taught us thai words while repeating “Teacher Brie Beauuuuuutiful, Teacher Felix very HANDSOME!”. Students blowing kisses, and giving us the “I love you” and peace sign symbols in the middle of class. Cell phone photo shoots also in the middle of class. The inburi school anthem (la la la laaaaaa INBURRIIIIIII!”). Colors of the week outfits that we often got wrong. Teachers whipping the students and loving it. Making speeches in the morning announcements such as “The Night before Christmas” and teaching students about Valentine’s Day while the students didn’t understand a word of it and gave us blank stares. Stray dogs all over Inburi school. Eating cakes, cookies, thai snacks, fruit, and coffee that was pushed on us all day in the English department. Our introduction to delicious thai food (and not just eating chicken and rice everyday) cooked for us by our amazing English teachers for lunch. PiTu and her giant reserve of energy which she spent singing and dancing and acting like a student herself (and her uncanny ability to take naps ANYWHERE when this energy ran out, including on the English department couch). PiTim calling herself “Fat old sexy woman” everyday and bringing us more homemade cakes and muffins than we have ever ate in our life. PiTi and her deep love for English (and English karaoke) and acting as a serogate mother and helping us in any way possible. Becoming friends with the one teacher Aee (sounds like Eh) who speaks the least amount of english but we found our has a hiliarious humor that we can still understand despite this. Showing the teachers how to play UNO and the million games of it we played thereafter. Teachers telling us that they hope we never forget them and telling us how much they will miss us.. realizing that this group of teachers has become like a second family to us. Seeing our students crying on our last day and realizing that leaving our students and friends is the hardest thing we have had to face all semester..
Our time in Inburi was more amazing than we could ever imagined. In this little town that at first seemed dusty and boring, we made friends that have immensly shaped our experience in Thailand and brought love to us that we couldn’t have imagined we would feel in just 4 short months here. The journey will continue.. but we know that no one will replace the friends we made here in little Inburi and we will certainly not forget it!
NOW, it is time for our summer break! We have 2 ½ months off before starting a new semester in a new town! And the first plan of action is to go to INDIA! Felix and I will be leaving on Monday and staying in India for 34 days. We are flying into Kolkata and from there traveling to Darjeeling, where we will be able to see Mt. Everest, Varnassi, the holy city on the Ganges river, Agra to see the Taj Mahal, Delhi, Jaipur, and a city to take an overnight camel safari through the dessert. And everything else is up in the air! We know it will be a crazy ride for the next month that will be full of surprises so we are just going to leave things open and see what adventures India will reveal to us.
After our trip in India, we will have one evening in Bangkok and then Felix’s parents will arrive for 2 weeks! We will travel back for one last visit to Inburi with them where we will have a party and be reunited with all our teacher friends for one last time. From Inburi we will go back to Kanchanaburi, one of our favorite spots in central Thailand where we saw Erawan Falls, the 7 tiered waterfall. Then we will spend their last week back in Southern Thailand visiting islands around Phuket province! We will go back to Ko Phi Phi, visit one of the nicest beaches in the world in Railay, and see the island Ko Lanta. Once Felix’s parents leave we will be “teacher evaluators” for the new training group of teachers who are doing their practice teaches in Phuket, just like we did 5 months ago! By then the break will have flown by and it will soon be time to move to our new teaching destination.
For next semester after some complications with our plans to move to Northern Thailand.. we will now be moving to Chaiyaphum in Esan! This is the place that a huge group of our teacher friends taught at last semester (and now 3 from last semester will still remain along with us and more friends moving there). We visited once last semester to see our friends and it is certainly a big different from Inburi from the foods that are native with the area, to slight differences in the language, and just the general fact that we will be in an actual CITY this time around. Because Esan is pretty far away we are mostly surrounded by national parks versus lots of cities, but we are happy to get to explore this new region and a place that is so vastly different from where we started out.
So, here we are, ending school in Inburi, and days later heading to India and then a new teaching city for our next (and probably last) semester in Thailand. This semester has been a whirlwind of experiences, and now we have a whole new chapter of the book to open..
Until next time… we miss you all and will update again when we can!
INDIA HERE WE COME!
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ReplyDeleteAh..I miss you,teachers!
please,come back again !
I'll visit your blog : D
Take care your self ka...♥♥♥
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