A WORLD of Opportunities I will be volunteering with the Northern Hill tribes in Thailand for two weeks and then will be traveling to Cambodia and Vietnam, to visit my sis!

School started so we finally had the opportunity to teach English. I chose to teach grade 1. These kids were fantastic. Although they have an attention span that lasts only 5 minutes they did seem keen to learn.The very first day my teacher was not in my classroom so I was left all alone to try to entertain/teach the 17 kids in my class. We went around the room and each kid told me their name. When I repeated them the classroom filled with little giggles. I guess I need to practice my Thai! The lesson started off with the children being well behaved but once they found out that they could probably get away with a bit more than usual, chaos reigned! Some kids were fighting with one another while others were sticking rulers down there throats...hmm...it was a lot of work! The second day I decided to plan out a lesson and include quite a bit of games, this worked a lot better! :) After each day of school we would do our usual and visit the orphanage to see the kids that are not in school. Although most of the children are in school it is nice to see the others and let them know that we do care and try to teach them a little bit to get by. I definitely have a greater appreciation for teachers!!