25 November

Sorry this blog is being eclipsed by the rise of facebook, I will do my best to pay more attention.

School is good, the new term has begun and the children are much better behaved this term, it's amazing how much of a struggle that first term is to imprint them with the idea of what is acceptable class room behaviour and what is not, but by the second term they know what to expect. Some of them are very sweet.
Many of the children in my class have complicated little lives. One of the little boys in my class came to me the other day and explained that he had lost his bag. He had, he told me, left it at the place of the woman he was living with because his Dad had told him he couldn't stay at home when his Mum's boyfriend comes over. Mum is a bar girl so basically the grand parents bring him up most of the time. We are doing past tense verbs at the moment and he declared that he knew the past tense of drink it is "drunk" he assured me. hmmmm.

Last night was Loy Krathong, or in literal translation the "float your boat" festival all the kids came to school dressed up and made little banana leaf boats to push away last years bad luck. we went to visit a beach we hadn't been to before it was beautiful, a long ride on the bike but nice to get to the beaches that are a little further away now the tourist season has begun.

If you want to read the Captain's log of my recent dive trip with Mandy please follow the link.

http://www.yachtwillow.com/captainslog/

O.k catch y'all soon.