Well it is finally the week of Thanksgiving! I really cannot believe it is already the end of November! Last I remembered it was summer (not that the temperature is much different now that it was then. Just less rain). For Thanksgiving day proper, I am going with a few friends to Le Chateau. French food for Thanksgiving! Then, Friday I am going to take my first train ride to visit some of my friends in Bangmulnak. A few of us are all meeting there to create our Thanksgiving Thai-style. I am bringing some goodies I have collected gradually for the past month. It is going to be so fun, though short. Then Sunday I am spending almost a full day going from Bangmulnak to Lampang. Monday is a day of personal pampering. I will visit some of my friends there and do a little Christmas shopping. They also have a huge Christmas tree in Lampang too. I am excited to see it. However, I do not have time to make a trip to Chiang Mai to see Catching Fire :-(
Last week, some of my younger kids made fortune tellers. There is a Thai style of it but that version is more like the dare part of Truth or Dare. The American version teaches them how to ask yes/no questions. And they love playing with me. Do you like to eat elephant? Do you like to ride a dinosaur? Teacher, will I still love you tomorrow? The students also have been running around with large bamboo horses (like the sticks with the horse head like we used to play with when we were kids, but these are ones they made themselves out of bamboo. They even put tassels for tails.) My favorite child, Jojo, is still bopping naughty students on the head and using various tactics to keep his class in control for me, when he is not being naughty himself. My oldest students are preparing to be teachers for the day. I split the class into groups, each with a topic and twelve vocab words they have to teach the class. I have a group of boys that are naughty and their English is not even close to the English level of the girls in that class. They chose the soccer topic and they actually knew a number of the English words, but they have trouble explaining it to me in English. When I explained 'nutmeg' to them they giggled themselves into a tizzy. Now they just have to teach these terms to the girls in the class, only using English. This should be funny. Oh wait.......they are going to bring a ball into my classroom and play as an example, I just know it. Maybe this wasn't the greatest idea. Oh jeez.
In other news, for the first time I locked my keys into my apartment. That was fun. They had to pop out the panes of my window to get the door open again. And the locksmith guy said he recognized my apartment. He was the one who apparently came the two times when my teachers lost my keys after the motorbike accident. The man must think I am one clumsy, forgetful farang. Then, last night when I was at a friend's house, I went outside and only one shoe was there! One of the stray dogs on the street had taken it outside the carport and gate and out to the street a house or two down. Then my shoe was all wet with dog slobber, though not too any teeth marks. I walked into my apartment later with one shoe on and holding my other shoe. The guard looked at me and I said the Thai word for dog. I learned to say dog just for this reason. Let's hope my luck get better this week!
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