The next stop

I’m now a very small amount of paperwork away from completing my first semester as an English teacher, and I am happy to report that I have officially found a job in China.
It’s a one-year contract with a technical college in Yangzhou, which is a medium-sized city about an hour away from a big city [...]

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Last day at Satrichaiyaphum High

That pretty much sums it up. I haven’t posed for that many camera-phones in my life. I even got to sign a few autographs.
Here are some of the highlights:

Most of Mathayom 4/2 didn’t make it to our final lesson, but a few of them did. And they even wrote some kind words on the blackboard.

I [...]

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I’ll miss you, Mathayom 4/9

I just finished my last class here at Satrichaiyaphum High.
Final exams start tomorrow and run through the end of next week, which means I’m 150 tests and a bit of paperwork away from completing my first semester as an English teacher. I still can’t believe that sentence is true, but I’m getting used to the [...]

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Ayutthaya

Most of the Buddhas in Ayutthaya are missing a head and at least one hand, so I thought I’d lead with one that escaped the Burmese invasion (apparently the Burmese invaders believed the Buddha’s power was held in the head and right hand, so they chopped these off of most of the statutes in the [...]

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Good luck, Mathayom 1/1

Friday was my last class with Mathayom 1/1, so I had to take a few class photos.
That peace sign pose, by the way, is literally the only way Thai people take pictures. And it’s not just kids. Anyone you meet on the street, in a bar, at a restaurant. Same pose.

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