Saturday

U did not do much today! I mainly just sat with the locals trying to learn Thai, and doing what they do (which isn't much)! The village I am staying in is called ban santisuk, and everyone is very friendly! My laptop and kindle on the other hand have not fared so well and have decided to stop working which is rather disappointing to say the least, as I need my laptop for teaching and my kindle so that I can read as I am an avid reader! I am trying to sort it out but to little avail!

Sunday

Today Nuan took me to her mothers with the rest of her family which was lovely! They made me a little Karen bag and we all sat on these big banana tree leaves and ate this delicious melon that was coated is a salty chilli soup like sauce! In the afternoon I played with namsup and generally relaxed as it was very hot! I tried to watch the t.v with them but it did not entice me to stay for long as it was all in Thai!

Monday

This was my first day teaching so iwas both nervous and excited! When I woke up this morning I went outside to find Nuan coming back from the market, she laid out all her goods on the bench and there was a rat like creature in the display but it had a round head! I said please don't feed that to me! She looked as though she understood! Teaching was interesting as they do not know much English, and whenever I tried to get them to converse with me they just repeated what I said! So I resorted to playing head shoulders knees and toes with them, then we named all the animals I could find pictures of which they really seemed to enjoy! At the end of the hour session we played musical statues! And they seemed very happy about this!