Stories from Ayutthaya

   Years (6) of trial and error are good for something.  Teaching is more fun this year.  I've learned what works and doesn't, how to discipline, e.g., have the offender come and stand by me, and some rudimentary Thai. (Thai is very difficult, 76 letters, 28 vowels and 5 tones.) That combination makes the time fly.
   It was another one of those days when 2 teachers, 3rd and 4th grades, were gone.  So I taught in those rooms so that they each had an hour of instruction.  One of the other teachers stops by the teacher-less rooms occasionally.
   Update on the tuk-tuk.  Gai/Mai did have to pay for the repairs even though it is a rental.  The tuk-tuk needed a clutch...about $60...which I paid.

4th grade

Playing soccer at lunch time.