Well the main part of the course is over now, just two weeks of young learners to go. I have been offered a job with the school where I did the course but I don't know first the pay and conditions or two if I want to stay in Bangkok. It is very flattering of course to be asked, but the jury is still out. I have applied for a job in Phuket which I think I am unlikely to get but what the hell.
We went and taught at an orphanage on Wed. which was great fun but the material was limited the kids just parroted the same thing over and over again, they were performing a play for the department of education in the afternoon so I taught them some basic acting skills which was fun, I actually find this teaching thing rather easy, maybe it is genetically passed on or something.
i go out in the mornings to buy fruit and can walk to the corner faster than the traffic can get there the traffic in Bangkok is madness, one of the reasons I am reluctant to end up working here, in the evenings we usually eat at the Suan Lum night bazaar which involves weaving my way through a car park past cars still exhaling heat from their recent arrival, and a whole tribe of local kittens.
Yesterday morning the alarm didn't go off and I leapt out of bed with half an hour to get to school (an put some clothes on), it's amazing how long it takes to poke yourself in the eye with a contact lens when the pressure is on, I then walked out without my jacket and spent all day freezing in the airconditioned class room. As I stood on the platform still ruffled with sleep, I looked down and saw the imprint of creased sheets still clearly imprinted across my breasts and hoped my face was not similarly adorned, I did not have time to concern myself with this thought too long as the train ground into the station carrying with it the aroma of the streets decaffinated by it's journey underground.
The metro and skytrain here are incredibly efficient with new trains pulling up every five to ten minutes, they are pristine and the platforms are patroled it's almost Singapore, they are also expensive by local standards and again freezing cold, enough with the airconditioning already.
Lunch time must scram.
More soon. Love N.J.
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