Day 28: Tuesday 21st July
My new topic for the week is clothing. I luckily have access to about 35 picture dictionaries,
which allow me to teach the vocal for lots of different items of clothing. The students
can then use this vocabulary for their writing exercises which consist of "When it is hot/cold/rainy I wear...."- this sounds easy, but believe me, they struggle! Without the picture dictionaries, I'd probably have to draw over 20 items of clothing on the board, and I think the kids know by now how horrific my drawing is.
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| Today's fruit basket! |
During my first lesson of the morning, where I was
attempting to play a game of SPLAT, I saw David arrive, waving his camera around: great!.
What I didn’t realise was that he also set up a GoPro, which was set to record.
This means that there is now a video of me trying to explain how you play
SPLAT; jumping around and shouting the word “pants!” because it was the magic word. (I wont mention how out of
breath and sweaty said activity made me. Man, I need to do some exercise!)
David accompanied Robert and I to some of our lessons, and
also had some meetings with our mentor to sort some things out with the school.
It is my school’s first time hosting an ETA from the British Council, so there
are a few teething problems. Today we had lunch at the school for the first
time, as Kanang went out and bought a load of food from the market. She bought
some chicken, sticky rice and some ‘som tam’, which is a spicy salad made from
un-ripe, crunchy papaya. Sometimes you may find raw snails, shrimp and crab in
there, which really puts me off.
Plus, the whole dish is soaked in fish sauce, which is made from fermented fish.
Yummy, eh?! I wish I could overcome this and enjoy som tam, because it is fairly healthy! But today I just stuck to my
dry chicken and rice. #gains
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| Lunch at school |
Surprise! I fell asleep at my desk again. Just as David
walked back into the office, I sprang awake and attempted to cover my
watch-imprinted face. (I trust that David won’t read this. If you do, David,
I’m sorry!!) He left soon after, so I woke myself up with a walk to the canteen
to buy ice cream. I think it was
coconut flavour, but you can never be sure in Thailand! It was covered with
peanuts, condensed milk and some yellow things that kind of resembled the
inside of a sweetcorn kernel. It was odd, but still enjoyable.
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| Ice cream |
After school I did the usual falling asleep thing, which has
become an expected daily event. Once I had woken up, I asked Kanang if we could
go to the market to buy some duck, so we drove a few minutes in search of some.
Did you know, the Thai word for duck is bed?
Anyway, there was no duck. So we bought some bbq pork on a stick (I ate this
for breakfast last week) and we intended to have it with salad at home. Kanang
had already bought some salad for us, which was pre-packed and prepared, ready
in individual bags. There was sweetcorn, lettuce, kidney beans, carrot and some
other random white beans that look a bit like pearl barley in there. To this we
added red cabbage, tomatoes and the pork. Two very strange sauces came with the
salad: strawberry yoghurt and kiwi yoghurt sauces! At first I left them because
I thought it was just too weird to put this on my food. But, it turns out that
Kiwi yoghurt is extremely tasty on a porky salad!
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| A very fun salad! |
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| Kiwi yoghurt/strawberry yoghurt dressing |
We had some durian for dessert. It is growing on me each
time I have it! It’s such a shame we don’t have it in the UK because I know I
will miss it a LOT. I don’t even think it smells that bad, whereas many people
wont even allow it in their house, because the smell offends them so much!
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| A good ol' chunk of durian |
Just realised all of today's pictures are of food. Oh well, thats not a terrible thing, eh!
Peace,
Olivia
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