no voice!

teaching without a voice is not much fun. well i had a little bit of a squeaky, sparatic voice, but it was pretty ridiculous. well ivebeen teaching for 4 days now. the first two were rough, but now im getting the hang of it. the 2nd day in my k3 class, the bully kis went out of control from the moment he came in. his name is kong, and he's a bigger kid. he started hitting a student so we put him in time out and had him sit outside to cool off for a while. he came back in and picked up a chair and started at the students, so the whole class was scared and didnt want to learn english. or anything. it was crazy but we made it through the day.

yesterday was a holiday. im not sure what holiday it was. but i should. i got to rest my voice and now i can talk-almost normally. i downloaded skype onto one of the computers at the internet cafe, so i will try to give all of you a call before christmas and say hi. i have internet at school but not wireless. so i have to use the computers the kids use-which are slow!

i have been taking pictures and will put a link up for those of you who dont have facebook.

at the school it is hard sometimes because all of the admin and teachers only speak thai and i dont know all of the expectations because they dont tell me! they only tell me if i have forgot to do something. like i guess i was supposed to have homework for the kids today - i had no idea. and im sitting here waiting for my k2 class to arrive and they are apparently on a field trip- no one told me. they know that i know some thai and we speak it together, but i dont know enough! i need to learn more!
everything is organized somehow- but im still trying to figure out the structure.

at the school we have a pet hedgehog- an albino one- and bunnies. the thai word for hedgehog is "men". thats how u pronounce it. funny huh?