Cambodia!

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

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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