Ruth's Travel Blog

Photos: TEFLing in Thailand!

THAILAND | Wednesday, 28 Aug 2013 | Photo Gallery

Teaching in Anubarn Surin
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Tags: fun, kindergarten, teaching, tefl

Koh Phi Phi and The Beach

THAILAND | Tuesday, 27 Aug 2013 | Views [1401]

Well since I last wrote, my closest friend out here (Julia) has left, which has been pretty tough. She travelled to Bangkok with Kat and I, when I went to meet Sophie, and we had a night out in Bangkok. The next morning (after only about a forty minute ... Read more >

Tags: beaches, buses, islands, tefl, the beach

Long weekend in Buriram

THAILAND | Saturday, 1 Jun 2013 | Views [1198]

Since I last wrote on here we had a long weekend, so 12 of us from Surin and surrounding area decided to escape to Buriram, the next province to the west of Surin. A load of others from Surin, and also interns from all round Thailand met up in Bangkok ... Read more >

Tags: buriram, tefl, temples, thailand, trains

Children and chest X-rays

THAILAND | Saturday, 11 May 2013 | Views [570]

We had a tour of the school on Thursday. It's huge! The primary school I went to at broughton was about 90 pupils. This one is 3,500. Is the most famous school in Surin Province. They run an English Program (EP) where the children learn mainly in English.... Read more >

Tags: heat, hospital, surin, tefl

My new home, Thai style

THAILAND | Tuesday, 7 May 2013 | Views [641] | Comments [1]

So that's my week in Bangkok over already! I'm now here in Surin where I will be teaching English to three year olds in a local school. A few things from last week: Went to a market and ate a grasshopper!! Went in a racing tuktuk visited ... Read more >

Tags: bangkok, elephant, grasshopper, surin, tefl, temples, tuktuk

Exploring Bangkok

THAILAND | Friday, 3 May 2013 | Views [636]

I'm the second group of the TEFL internship who are training this week. So the last couple of days, group A have been doing the TEFL course, and group B ( my group) have had a few classes about Thai classroom culture, Thai Language lessons, Thai dancing ... Read more >

Tags: bangkok, kho san road, tefl