Queen of America

Today, I got to teach for the first time here with another one of the volunteers, Nicole. I was ridiculously excited and had the wonderful opportunity to teach "Pratom" 1, 2, 3, and 6 at an amazing school (equivalent to grades 1, 2, 3, and 6). The kids are absolutely adorable and I already want to adopt a Thai child at some point in my life. The classes had limited resources, so we had to be really creative in order to get things to stick. Currently, they're really just learning common words/phrases in conversational English. My personal favorite lesson today was teaching the months of the year while doing the Macarena.

After school, we had the opportunity to teach English to the teachers. They were HILARIOUS! They wanted to learn key phrases when shopping at the market. We came up with short conversations and then we role played them. We were laughing so hard when they were saying that a pen was worth 1 million baht because it was made out gold and diamonds or when they decided that they wanted to pay with a credit card because they had "too much money".

Two of the teachers drove Nicole and I home at the end of the day. They were playing Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, telling us how great they are. They also told us that they were big Yankees fans (I knew I liked them!). It was seriously the funniest car ride that I've ever been in and I was crying from laughing so hard. Because my name is too difficult for them to say (first, it was "Mekkon". Then, they asked my nickname, so it became "Mek"), they have now dubbed me as "Queen of America". I gladly accepted. Thank you very much.