Koh Chang

Okay, so I haven’t written in here in a while, and uncle mark called me while I was on an island and reminded me of that. Here’s for you uncle mark! J I’ve been keeping busy with writing up assessments for the 100 kids, then testing all of the kids individually, and then grading them all and typing up written English Assessments for each kid. It’s been keeping me pretty busy. But as of today, I am probably going to be finished with it all by next Tuesday at the latest. Which means I will have 2 weeks of “nothing” really to do at school- I just have to physically be here from 7:30am-4:30pm everyday. I still have to teach my after school English clubs, but that isn’t much work. The last week of the month is parent teacher conferences, so that will be interesting too.

This last weekend I decided that I needed a break and that I needed to get out of the Bangkok area. So me and my friend Lindsey went to an island called Koh Chang with 11 other “farangs” (foreigners) working in Thailand- mostly English teachers. It was a very fun time. We stayed in bungalows on the beach and spent our days relaxing- swimming in the ocean, playing Frisbee, tennis, running on the beach, getting thai massages on the beach, and hiking to waterfalls. I found one of my new favorite dishes too on the island at a really good restaurant/bar- fried rice with chicken with yellow curry powder and raisins- it was so good!

I’m also glad I went on the trip because I got to meet 11 other really cool people (they were Lindsey’s friends). They all play ultimate Frisbee on Sundays on a team and invited me to come play with them. A couple of the girls are also runners, which is fun, and they told me about some cool races coming up. So this Sunday I am running a 10k in Bangkok with them, and then in march there is a duathlon in Koh Phagnan that I am going to run. The other duathlon is in northern Thailand and I might still do that too.

That’s what I’ve been up to. I’m not thinking I will be a superstar at this race on Sunday, but it will be fun. I’m going to thai boxing practice on Saturday, which isn’t something I would normally do before a race, but I don’t care, I need to get my thai boxing fix in while I’m here. More later! Take care everyone!