Time for some more random observations.

The canteen at school is the cafeteria.  It consists of some stalls with food sellers in them.  There are 4 or 5 food sellers and a 3 or 4 sugary drink sellers.  I started trying the sugary drinks because I like sugary drinks.  In theory, the blue one should be the best because blue sugary things usually are.  It was horrible.  Then I tried the purple – it was grape – not my favorite.  Then I tried pink – strawberry (pronounced stabureeeeeeeee).  It’s so delicious.  I’ve been getting it at lunch for a couple months now.  I started noticing that after lunch I would be so tired that I wanted to just nap.  I assumed it was the heat.  But, now that it’s not as hot, I still notice it.  The last time I had strawberry drink, I also got a headache so bad I thought I might have to go to the hospital, but I was too tired to ask for help.  I have concluded that although it is quite tasty, strawberry drink is indeed toxic and it tried to kill me.  I have switched to over sugared coffee (pronounced gaffe).

There is a teacher here who is a short man who is always smiling and has so much energy.  I’m pretty sure he gets more done in a day than I do in a week.  This is the energizer bunny.  I started noticing that he giggles after almost everything he says, maybe after everything he says.  It is really delightful.  I think the world would be a better place if everyone giggled after they spoke.

The game, Clue, is almost impossible to explain how to play.  After an entire half hour of trying to explain how to play it, I was still getting blank stares as if they were saying, “and how is this fun”?  The Thai co-teacher’s brain was about to explode as she didn’t understand either.  All I could think was how when I was a kid we would play this game for hours and hours and hours.  You couldn’t drag us away from it.

I started packing – trying to figure out what I will need for the next 3 months, what I will need if I find a job in SE Asia and what needs to be mailed home.  The only conclusions I have come up with are: 1.  The giant suitcase I came over with is ridiculous and I will go mad if I have to drag that around for 3 months, and 2.  I have way too much stuff.

Some of my students have made me stuff.  I got a paper cat which I posted a picture of a little while ago, two cards and some paper flowers.  They yellow rose is quite an amazing piece of artwork – see picture below.  This is the part I will miss – the students.

There is artwork all over some of the classrooms.  They love minions and one wall has the zodiac signs in minions.  I’ve looked at it a million times and then one day I noticed for the first time that the Capricorn (my sign) is the purple frizzy haired minion.  Awesome.

Ton (the Chinese language teacher) has been feeding a puppy.  Even though he doesn’t let the puppy in his house, he says it’s his new dog.  He named the dog ice cream.  Now ice cream hangs out at school during the day waiting for Ton.

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