i have very exciting news, i am now able to use my blog again because my laptop has been fixed!!!! i am currently in Lampang with the headmaster of a school and i am helping him to speak better english as is is doing a medical course i think in nutrition!

Hiya sorry about the breaks in blogging but there really isn't anything to report from last week except for the fact that I saw the cutest little monkey, it was probably a very evil monkey though!

Hi everybody, sorry it's been a while but I have been unwell! But I am now back at the school so will update again later!

Saturday and Sunday

Early the next morning Cruell took me back to nuan's, but she was not there, so I had a relaxing day alone, and did a bit of wandering around! Nuan got back at about 4pm with a large bucket of little crabs and frogs for us to eat over the week! I wish I could have gone with as it sounded like fun!

Next didnt get up to much so nothing to say really!

Friday night

I went to a katong festival which was absolutely amazing! A katong is basically a little bowl made from leaves an flowers! In the centre there is some food like rice and a candle, they also put some hair and nail clippings of their own! Then they put the katongs in the river to float away! This is meant to represent them giving something back to the river as it gives them so much, but it also represents them sending the bad things about themselves away in the hair and nails! For the festival they create big katongs that are on a stage on the back of a pickup truck! They are very beautifully decorated with lights and flowers and pictures! In them sat a beautiful Thai girl and later all of the girls from the katongs take part in a beauty pageant! Each katong entered is matched in a parade and each katong has its own contingent of paraders behind it, I was asked to be in one of these and I was given a little katong of my own! It was so exciting ans so much fun! Later each katong has a dance which is performed on stage! Each bit of this festival was judged! Everyone was very drunk which was greatly amusing! There were also lots of fireworks, but out here they seem to just throw them all by hand which is rather disconcerting! I also got to release my own moon lantern which was nice! After the festival it was too late to go back to nuan's so I stayed at Cruell, the English teachers for the night!

I got to school this morning ready to plan my lessons for the afternoon only to find a great gaggle of children coming into my classroom demanding that I teach them, they were young and I had never taught them before so I started out with the basics to grasp where they were, after this I had them draw a person and label the body parts, and then the clothes! They seemed to love this and tackled the task with great enthusiasm, although the concentration on their faces was very amusing! Then we played head, shoulders, knees and toes. So they all left smiling! I also had this class avian later so we did similar things but I had two people crying in this lesson! It was very hard for me to diffuse the situation and figure out what was wrong because of the language barriers! I went to find a teacher which took about 15 minutes because they were all building katongs! Tonight I am going to the katong festival which I am really looking forward to!

At long last I finally have my passport back! Hurrah