Well everyone... 1st off. no one has gotten skype to call me, but thats ok. sometimes i text message myself. Also, mom i tried to text message you a little bit ago, i dont know if they work, but if you get one from me, email me and let me know.
In other news, I have found out that teaching English is fun, and that my teachers think that Ive been doing a good job. Must be all that practice in Mrs. Medina's 4th grade class. Tomorrow I am going to Cambodia for a border run. Which means I have to pay a lot of money to leave Thailand, then turn around and come back in. Im excited for the experience but it will suck getting ripped off at the border. There are 6 of u going, we rented a van and driver so that should help. Wish me luck!
We have also decided to travel to another part of Thailand to look for a job. Now we are looking into the South peninsula, the northern part. It's about 4 hours south of bankok, but this time west of it. We are planning to base ourselves out of Hua Hin, which we hear is a great city. There were will scope out the surrounding town looking for someone to hire us for the year. Everything is going great, Thailand is a lot of fun, and when we get long breaks we go swimming in the ocean, which is a 3 minute walk down the road. It's warm, and humid and hot, but we're starting to get used to it a little.
Hope Christmas plans are going well. We have a dinner at a restaurant in town from an expat who is going to make a big turkey roast, stuffing, ham, potatoes... food we miss dearly in a rice-dominated market.
Feel free to email me at robster125@gmail.com whenever you want. Ill try to email people when I get the chance, but the internet shop down the street is heavily flooded with kids playing oldschool Warcraft games, so sometimes it's hard to get a computer (especially one that doesn't shock you when you touch metal)
Talk to everyone later!
Oh, and in case you REALLY wanted to call me (66-83-110-8791) or maybe it's 66-083-110-8791... i forget if you need the zero or not. laters
Friday, December 21, 2007
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
I have a cell phone!!
If you want to call me
+66 8 3110 8791
It's probably expensive to call, so I suggest getting a Skype account. I have one, name Robster125... feel free to set up a skype and then call me anytime! i think it's free for me to accept calls, if it isn't, then ill stop answering them
In other news.
School is still going. Teaching is fun. It's still warm. We plan on going to Bangkok for New Years to celebrate in style, then a little trip around to look for places to call home. Hope all is well
I'm a bubble Goodbye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+66 8 3110 8791
It's probably expensive to call, so I suggest getting a Skype account. I have one, name Robster125... feel free to set up a skype and then call me anytime! i think it's free for me to accept calls, if it isn't, then ill stop answering them
In other news.
School is still going. Teaching is fun. It's still warm. We plan on going to Bangkok for New Years to celebrate in style, then a little trip around to look for places to call home. Hope all is well
I'm a bubble Goodbye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, December 8, 2007
week one
well everyone... it's been a week. i know i should try to keep the grammer of this correct, but if you sae the computer i was on, you would understand...
sooooooo. bangkok was rad, but too much going on. we hopped on a bus down to Ban Phe (ban pay) and then walked to find our school at the end of town. The walk was horrid, with all of our bags, we were hot, sweaty nd tired by the end. our school is on a street that runs into the beach. we're about a minute walk down to the beach, 5 if you want your own little spot of sand undisturbed by anyone else. it's fantastic. The king's birthday was on the 5th, so from monday the whole town started putting up lights, setting up huge markets, a giant stge for music nd dancing... it's been quite the week.
sunday we hung out around ban phe, met everyone in our program, made some friends...
school isn't hard. its actually quite easy and just a lot of busy work. may be harder for the older people who rnt used to writing a lot and reading everynight... but its really not bad.
wednesday we got to be in the parade for the king, all wearing our King's Polo's (yellow) and marched down into town then had the owner of TEFL take us out to dinner (the second free diner we have recieved)
today, saturday, the course payed for a boat to take us over to the usland of Koh Samet, with white sand beaches. we rented scooters but mine had no power, and on one hill, johanna had to get off, then the engine died. then the wheen locked up, then i fell into a ditch with it... whoops. the water here is so nice, so warm, feel great after sitting out in the sun
lets see, prices...
meals set us back about 25-60 baht, 70 cents to 2 dollars a piece
renting a moto for the day is about 8 dollars
gas is a dollar a liter (but thats ok with motos)
we've met some people teaching all over, and even have a couple contacts we want to try to use when it comes time for finding jobs. we have met two kids, Airlie and Trevor, from PEI, Canada, who want to work in the same city as us (Rayong, about 30 min from Ban Phe) so we may all get a house together. We hear jobs are plentiful and rent is cheap, so we're going to check it out tomorrow.
the week went by pretty fast, but it feels like we've been here a while.
our thai is getting a little better by the day, ordering food and drink is getting a little easier, and hello and thank you and do i look good in this... all the basics.
hope all is well, i bet it's getting a little cold at home... the best we get is AC'ing our rooms to get cold, but once it's off you just start sweating again... or at least i do.
ill be uploading pictures on facebook soon, so mom... remember to check those.
hi gradma and bompa! hope hawaii was fun
talk to you all soon. soon ill have a cell phone and number. and i may set up a scype account. talk to you soon
sooooooo. bangkok was rad, but too much going on. we hopped on a bus down to Ban Phe (ban pay) and then walked to find our school at the end of town. The walk was horrid, with all of our bags, we were hot, sweaty nd tired by the end. our school is on a street that runs into the beach. we're about a minute walk down to the beach, 5 if you want your own little spot of sand undisturbed by anyone else. it's fantastic. The king's birthday was on the 5th, so from monday the whole town started putting up lights, setting up huge markets, a giant stge for music nd dancing... it's been quite the week.
sunday we hung out around ban phe, met everyone in our program, made some friends...
school isn't hard. its actually quite easy and just a lot of busy work. may be harder for the older people who rnt used to writing a lot and reading everynight... but its really not bad.
wednesday we got to be in the parade for the king, all wearing our King's Polo's (yellow) and marched down into town then had the owner of TEFL take us out to dinner (the second free diner we have recieved)
today, saturday, the course payed for a boat to take us over to the usland of Koh Samet, with white sand beaches. we rented scooters but mine had no power, and on one hill, johanna had to get off, then the engine died. then the wheen locked up, then i fell into a ditch with it... whoops. the water here is so nice, so warm, feel great after sitting out in the sun
lets see, prices...
meals set us back about 25-60 baht, 70 cents to 2 dollars a piece
renting a moto for the day is about 8 dollars
gas is a dollar a liter (but thats ok with motos)
we've met some people teaching all over, and even have a couple contacts we want to try to use when it comes time for finding jobs. we have met two kids, Airlie and Trevor, from PEI, Canada, who want to work in the same city as us (Rayong, about 30 min from Ban Phe) so we may all get a house together. We hear jobs are plentiful and rent is cheap, so we're going to check it out tomorrow.
the week went by pretty fast, but it feels like we've been here a while.
our thai is getting a little better by the day, ordering food and drink is getting a little easier, and hello and thank you and do i look good in this... all the basics.
hope all is well, i bet it's getting a little cold at home... the best we get is AC'ing our rooms to get cold, but once it's off you just start sweating again... or at least i do.
ill be uploading pictures on facebook soon, so mom... remember to check those.
hi gradma and bompa! hope hawaii was fun
talk to you all soon. soon ill have a cell phone and number. and i may set up a scype account. talk to you soon
Friday, November 30, 2007
Bangok
So after a looong flight, we finally arrived into BKK, Bangkok. The first flight was about 14 hours, and due to an older plane, the entertainment factor was quite slim. Sadly, the highlight was High School Musical 2, which was the only movie worth watching of the 2 they played. I tried a couple glasses of wine but that just made me feel sick and not be able to sleep. However, the flight went surprisingly fast, and after a quick stint in Taipei, we got an AMAZING AND AWSOME plane to Bangkok. There were 60 channels, movies, audio, and video games. I watched TV, ate, called my friend in the seat next to me via our seat phones... it was a blast! If only the first 14 hours were as nice. Bangkok has been good to us so far. We opted to brave taking a bus from the airport and saving money, so we headed to the station below the airport and waited for our bus. Surprisingly (or not) it was full of tourists only all going to the same street, Th Khao San. This the THE tourist pull, but we got off and were determined to walk to find a little hostel. We met a kid names Bailey from Northern California and he had a recommended place so we followed him to it. The hostel is called KC guesthouse and worked fine for us. We took a double room, but then asked if he wanted to sleep on the "couch" and so we're now sharing a room with AC for 6 dollars a person a night. Not too bad.
The street food is PHENOMONAL, mainly the pineapple. It's about 20 baht for a whole one, which is about 60 cents. It is so fresh and sweet and they cut it up right there for you. Then there are the noddles, and banana pankakes and more fruit and eggs over rice. Who doesn't love street food (keeping away from the fried stuff, of course). So far it has been good.
The first night we lived it up a little too hard, and went to bed at about 9pm. We were all so exhasted we didn't make it late at all. Then we slept for about 12 hours, but I was up bright and early at 7 am, showered in the cold water and then just lay around, because it's still tiring from all the travel and no sleeping on the planes.
Today we explored a little bit of Bangkok, going to the Golden Palace and the Siem Square and possibly Chinatown later and then over to Patpong for some nightlife and entertainment. As of now, the people are great, and laugh histerically when we try our thai, and offer to help us learn words, however complicated, which we forget immediatlely, of course.
Ohhh, the weather! Thailand is HOT AND HUMID AND HORRIBLE. no it's not. it's perfect. it's not really hot or humid, it's cool in the night... we hit the good season. i don't want to know the hot season, because this is perfect. I love it. We are excited to get down to Ban Phe and have a place to call home for 4 weeks. We're near fluent in Thai. Love you all
Rob
The street food is PHENOMONAL, mainly the pineapple. It's about 20 baht for a whole one, which is about 60 cents. It is so fresh and sweet and they cut it up right there for you. Then there are the noddles, and banana pankakes and more fruit and eggs over rice. Who doesn't love street food (keeping away from the fried stuff, of course). So far it has been good.
The first night we lived it up a little too hard, and went to bed at about 9pm. We were all so exhasted we didn't make it late at all. Then we slept for about 12 hours, but I was up bright and early at 7 am, showered in the cold water and then just lay around, because it's still tiring from all the travel and no sleeping on the planes.
Today we explored a little bit of Bangkok, going to the Golden Palace and the Siem Square and possibly Chinatown later and then over to Patpong for some nightlife and entertainment. As of now, the people are great, and laugh histerically when we try our thai, and offer to help us learn words, however complicated, which we forget immediatlely, of course.
Ohhh, the weather! Thailand is HOT AND HUMID AND HORRIBLE. no it's not. it's perfect. it's not really hot or humid, it's cool in the night... we hit the good season. i don't want to know the hot season, because this is perfect. I love it. We are excited to get down to Ban Phe and have a place to call home for 4 weeks. We're near fluent in Thai. Love you all
Rob
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Yet another Blog...
Well,
Since it looks like Ill be doing little blogs for the family (Diane, Nancy) everywhere I seem to end up... This is the latest and greatest fantastic fun-filled breath-taking bounty of blogwork. As always, I dont know how much I'll be able to update this, but I should be able to access it once and a while.
In case you dont know, I have decided to move to Thailand and teach English for the next 7-12 months.
Since it looks like Ill be doing little blogs for the family (Diane, Nancy) everywhere I seem to end up... This is the latest and greatest fantastic fun-filled breath-taking bounty of blogwork. As always, I dont know how much I'll be able to update this, but I should be able to access it once and a while.
In case you dont know, I have decided to move to Thailand and teach English for the next 7-12 months.
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