Thanks to me, you fools aren't going to forget how devastatingly good-looking I am.
A few pictures for your viewing pleasure from Loy Krathong!
One is my coordinator and I sitting at our table at the festival...she is the craziest driver I've ever met, and when I told her that, she giggled like she thought it was a compliment, so either she is like me and prides herself on her terror-inducing wheel maneuvers or she had no idea what I was saying...she's good people though.
Another is me with the group of boys that I play basketball with at the park sometimes after I run...my moves are getting pretty sweet-I'll be dunking in no time. My favorite favorite is the boy in the yellow next to me, who talked to me about his girl problems at the festival while we were walking around looking for coconut ice cream-needless to say, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this aspect of being a teacher...when kids open up to me about their lives. I hope eventually most of my students get comfortable enough to do this.
Two of the others...one of the coolest festival features was the huge presence of these paper lanterns in the skies...mini hot-air balloon type deals that (here we are with wishes again, you fools all should have woken up in Thailand by now...) carry your wishes into the sky to be granted. With the full moon and a clear evening, these lanterns carrying people's wishes were truly a beautiful event.
Some of my favorite younger students! I don't know their Thai names, because kids here pick English words or easy Thai words as nicknames for their English teachers-the first two girls are Nan and Pair, and the other girl with just me is Eung (kind of a hard one to say, for an English speaker, it gets a little stuck in the back of my throat, but I'm working on it.) Some of the other more hilarious nicknames that my students have chosen are Gun (that shit would NOT fly in an American school), Atom, Dream, Ice, and Book1 and Book2 (they both reallly wanted to be book).
Another is me with the krathong that I made (with the heavy-handed help of a student.)
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