Tik saves the day (and lets us know that it's not a dangerous animal either!)
Friday, October 29, 2004
Halloween
Friday, 29 October 2004
Today we did some Halloween art projects, as we realized late yesterday that part of the English curriculum is to expose the children to American culture and holidays. They had fun making pattern picture washes and spider hats.
After school, I had fun playing bocce ball with some teachers until the sun went down.
We watched "School of Rock" (Christy decided to buy the $3 DVD while we were picking up food for dinner.) and after dinner, I was in my room, when Christy knocks on my door and seems a bit perplexed and says, "You have to come downstairs and check this out." On the kitchen floor, there is this lump under our contact paper-like floor. She says she just stepped on something hard and it poked her foot. She thinks it's a large beetle (like ones she has seen before) but does not want to lift the floor up to check. You can noticeably see a large lump, about 4 inches wide protruding on the kitchen floor. We both begin poking at it and then call Tik to check it out. She comes and lifts up the "contact paper" which covers our entire kitchen floor (as Christy and I both edge farther away, not wanting to see what "else" might be under there) and sure enough, there was this large rhinocerous beetle, now crushed by Christy's foot under the floor. We both start freaking out in disgust, and Christy runs to get her camera as Tik laughs at the two farangs, telling us "animal not dangerous". She picks it up with her fingers and dangles it around as we take pictures to commemorate our find. Tik just laughs at us and asks "You no have in America?", and I say, definitely no, that's why were taking these pictures! Guess you never know what might be lurking under your kitchen floor. Trick or treat!
Today we did some Halloween art projects, as we realized late yesterday that part of the English curriculum is to expose the children to American culture and holidays. They had fun making pattern picture washes and spider hats.
After school, I had fun playing bocce ball with some teachers until the sun went down.
We watched "School of Rock" (Christy decided to buy the $3 DVD while we were picking up food for dinner.) and after dinner, I was in my room, when Christy knocks on my door and seems a bit perplexed and says, "You have to come downstairs and check this out." On the kitchen floor, there is this lump under our contact paper-like floor. She says she just stepped on something hard and it poked her foot. She thinks it's a large beetle (like ones she has seen before) but does not want to lift the floor up to check. You can noticeably see a large lump, about 4 inches wide protruding on the kitchen floor. We both begin poking at it and then call Tik to check it out. She comes and lifts up the "contact paper" which covers our entire kitchen floor (as Christy and I both edge farther away, not wanting to see what "else" might be under there) and sure enough, there was this large rhinocerous beetle, now crushed by Christy's foot under the floor. We both start freaking out in disgust, and Christy runs to get her camera as Tik laughs at the two farangs, telling us "animal not dangerous". She picks it up with her fingers and dangles it around as we take pictures to commemorate our find. Tik just laughs at us and asks "You no have in America?", and I say, definitely no, that's why were taking these pictures! Guess you never know what might be lurking under your kitchen floor. Trick or treat!
Thursday, October 28, 2004
And who is the winner in Bocce Ball?
Thursday, 28 October 2004
Last week, we noticed an area of the garden dug out and gravel laid down. I thought, "Ooh, Bocce ball," and today for clubs, I noticed they started a bocce ball club, led by the computer teacher Khru Lek. The balls all had different stripes on them. There were about fifteen boys wathcing as two others played. I asked him how many points they play up to, and he said 13, for teams, 11. I told him I like to play this game in America. He told all the boys that it was the farang's turn. I played against him first (funny, as it's supposed to be a student club, and here they were all watching two teachers play). As I would score points, the boys would laugh and tease their teacher. I ended up beating him that game. Then we played teams. Me and another teacher vs. Khru Lek and a student. The students were egging him on. 5 to 1....7 to 1....We ended up winning that game too, 11 to 1. We played the whole club period and watched some games as well. It was a lot of fun.
Last week, we noticed an area of the garden dug out and gravel laid down. I thought, "Ooh, Bocce ball," and today for clubs, I noticed they started a bocce ball club, led by the computer teacher Khru Lek. The balls all had different stripes on them. There were about fifteen boys wathcing as two others played. I asked him how many points they play up to, and he said 13, for teams, 11. I told him I like to play this game in America. He told all the boys that it was the farang's turn. I played against him first (funny, as it's supposed to be a student club, and here they were all watching two teachers play). As I would score points, the boys would laugh and tease their teacher. I ended up beating him that game. Then we played teams. Me and another teacher vs. Khru Lek and a student. The students were egging him on. 5 to 1....7 to 1....We ended up winning that game too, 11 to 1. We played the whole club period and watched some games as well. It was a lot of fun.
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