hi everybody, just new to this. love the stories and photos, so great to read others adventure stories.. Well my travels , yes well, Banphe was my first destination to obtain a tefl certificate.Well Banphe supposed to be a quiet fishing village with pristine beaches . The school included accomodation with near new facilities, internett access, restaurant. Non of it was true the place Banphe is like a rubbish tip, we had to walk across the road to Mamma's for a very limited menue or walk downtown for anything healthy which took about ten minutes and was quite a pain when you have to do it for a month. There were only 6 on the course which they told us was fast filling up . The teacher was a burn't out American atheist, fanatically quoting Chomsky whoever he maybe and a Thai teacher who was very sweet but couldn't understand my english. Please don't do a tefl course with tefl international they so ripped us off and the free course they offered after we had completed the tefl none existant. Im sure there are good courses out there best to know before you go