23.04 “Oh my Buddha!”
Wonderful wanderlust … you take a chance. And life can you to some odd places, but most times, it will take you to absolutely incredible places.
I find myself in a “penthouse” on the top floor of the TEFL school, with wooden floors, a perpendicular shaped balcony - the first place I visit every morning. And, I’m greeted by a tropical wind, lush green hills, small roads and the red tiles of my roof.
When I first reached Phuket, I met an ex-TEFL student in her balcony and as she pointed towards Phuket, she told me “How could you not like that?”
Everyday I wake up, I look outside my balcony and I smile very very wide.
But, I do have just about the right amount of drama to keep me on my toes…
It takes 3 minutes for the water to start spraying after I turn on the knob of the shower, and 5 minutes for it to stop after I turn it off. And yesterday, as I took a crap, the water suddenly sprayed from the shower although the knob was turned off. Of course, there is no curtain separating the shower from the toilet, and so I got drenched! Here’s something I never thought I would experience! Mmm…maybe there’s a ghost in my room.
Today I rented a small scooter for the whole 4 weeks of the course, and got my first experience riding around Phuket. Phuket is a pretty big island west off the peninsula of Thailand. There are 3 main beaches infested with tourists that I would not recommend to anyone, and there are many secluded beaches, and today I visited my first one as I went to meet Chand and Harsh who just reached. A lagoon of turquoise blue water overlooking 3 islands, and small hills on the sides and at the back… As I rode, I had the wind on my face, greenery on my side, and beautiful roads all leading to the sea.
I felt A…l…i…v…e…
We are 21 different students in the course, a mix from England, Australia, Ireland, Canada, Wales, South Africa, U.S. and a single Indian… I haven’t found one student that isn’t interesting. There’s an Irish guy who described how he once rode a donkey in his introduction speech and not a single person understood what he was talking about because of his strong Irish accent, but he got us all laughing just looking at him slapping his imaginary donkey. A Welsh guy bought me my first beer when I reached Phuket as a welcome to TEFL and another Irish woman told the teacher “Why don’t you sit down and teach instead of standing up? You’re sweating all over the place!”;
The course is challenging, it is mainly concentrated on standing in front of a class and teaching, which is completely understandable. Yesterday, I had my first class teaching Thai kids. The nerves automatically calmed down after the first 2 minutes, and the class went well on the whole except at the end when I didn’t get the answers back from a question sheet I had distributed and played hangman instead! That left my teacher scratching his head…
Chris, one of my teachers, had this experience to tell us about Thailand. He once went to a village and spent sometime with a Thai family, and after sometime, he heard a Thai exclaiming in aghast “Oh, my Buddha!!” copying his repeated exclamation of “Oh my god!”
I also played Basketball with the local Thais of the neighborhood, and whenever I got a shot, they would shout at me “Nice shoot! Nice shoot!”
:) :) :)
I find myself in a “penthouse” on the top floor of the TEFL school, with wooden floors, a perpendicular shaped balcony - the first place I visit every morning. And, I’m greeted by a tropical wind, lush green hills, small roads and the red tiles of my roof.
When I first reached Phuket, I met an ex-TEFL student in her balcony and as she pointed towards Phuket, she told me “How could you not like that?”
Everyday I wake up, I look outside my balcony and I smile very very wide.
But, I do have just about the right amount of drama to keep me on my toes…
It takes 3 minutes for the water to start spraying after I turn on the knob of the shower, and 5 minutes for it to stop after I turn it off. And yesterday, as I took a crap, the water suddenly sprayed from the shower although the knob was turned off. Of course, there is no curtain separating the shower from the toilet, and so I got drenched! Here’s something I never thought I would experience! Mmm…maybe there’s a ghost in my room.
Today I rented a small scooter for the whole 4 weeks of the course, and got my first experience riding around Phuket. Phuket is a pretty big island west off the peninsula of Thailand. There are 3 main beaches infested with tourists that I would not recommend to anyone, and there are many secluded beaches, and today I visited my first one as I went to meet Chand and Harsh who just reached. A lagoon of turquoise blue water overlooking 3 islands, and small hills on the sides and at the back… As I rode, I had the wind on my face, greenery on my side, and beautiful roads all leading to the sea.
I felt A…l…i…v…e…
We are 21 different students in the course, a mix from England, Australia, Ireland, Canada, Wales, South Africa, U.S. and a single Indian… I haven’t found one student that isn’t interesting. There’s an Irish guy who described how he once rode a donkey in his introduction speech and not a single person understood what he was talking about because of his strong Irish accent, but he got us all laughing just looking at him slapping his imaginary donkey. A Welsh guy bought me my first beer when I reached Phuket as a welcome to TEFL and another Irish woman told the teacher “Why don’t you sit down and teach instead of standing up? You’re sweating all over the place!”;
The course is challenging, it is mainly concentrated on standing in front of a class and teaching, which is completely understandable. Yesterday, I had my first class teaching Thai kids. The nerves automatically calmed down after the first 2 minutes, and the class went well on the whole except at the end when I didn’t get the answers back from a question sheet I had distributed and played hangman instead! That left my teacher scratching his head…
Chris, one of my teachers, had this experience to tell us about Thailand. He once went to a village and spent sometime with a Thai family, and after sometime, he heard a Thai exclaiming in aghast “Oh, my Buddha!!” copying his repeated exclamation of “Oh my god!”
I also played Basketball with the local Thais of the neighborhood, and whenever I got a shot, they would shout at me “Nice shoot! Nice shoot!”
:) :) :)
posted by manu at 4:04 AM
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on aurait dû venir voir où tu habites :(
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