Today I taught my last class in Thailand. When I went to school this morning, I didn’t know this would be my last day of teaching. Mid-morning, I overheard a conversation in Thai mentioning something to the effect of “last day of school on Friday.” To which I expressed surprise, and it was communicated to … Continue reading »
Posted in February 2012 …
“Speak English on Monday”
Recently the foreign English department at my school has been putting together a series of videos to promote the school’s new “Speak English on Monday” campaign. A couple of the videos were featured on the Bangkok Post, which is the main English language newspaper in Thailand. You can check out that article here. I wanted … Continue reading »
If you can’t say anything nice….
don’t say anything at all. We’ve all heard this. In my case, though, it runs more like this: “If you can’t say anything nice, mean, or really anything at all because you don’t speak Thai, say it in English to yourself and stew over it for a while until you get angry enough to write … Continue reading »