TODAY!

Blog for 2/23/09
I’ve been away for TWO WEEKS. Whoa. I’m definitely settling in, or I think I am… the other day I didn’t have any kind of nervous attack at all, which was sweet. The rest of the sports extravaganza was pretty cool, and it was nice to be in the same vicinity as students and teachers, I think it helped me and them get more comfortable, and even though I’m back at the school now I really hope it sticks. There are three trophies sitting the table that we brought back; the last truck of boys, the one I had left with, just arrived back this morning while the rest of us got here last night. I know that we did very well in the cool kicking over the net sport; but I’m not sure what the other are. Driving back yesterday was quite long and hot, I feel like that it’s been getting hotter every day. I have no sense of seasons here. On one hand, everywhere there are chickens, there is a little flock of chicks, and every herd of cows we pass, or drive through, as they are often all over the road, has several calves. Naturally, I think, spring! Then, there are these trees with big dinner plate sized leaves that they are losing. They make this loud cracking noise a lot of the time falling off, and if one brushes me I never fail to turn around in surprise to see who it is, because they are so weighty and solid feeling. Then, I get, FALL! And lastly, it’s hot out, and I spend most of my time doing nothing, and I’m not going to school, which just throws me into summer time. I asked someone the other day, which month is the hottest, and she said April, or May, I think. Anyways, it’s just strange living in a place that isn’t regulated by seasons, as I know it.
So, it looks like I’ll be moving into the director’s house here at the school. I’m not sure if he stays here during the week or not, but regardless, there is a room for me. I think that Non said his father either is or has been sick, which doesn’t surprise me, and I’m not sure if she’s worried because it might be contagious or just because they don’t need another person around. Both are perfectly reasonable, and I’m sure it’ll be fine. Unfortunately, they turn the bloody radio on at like 5:30 around here, and it is LOUD. Maybe I’ll learn to sleep through it, or I’ll figure out something to do from 6 to about 8 every day. Right now, it’s just after 9 and kids are going to class. I haven’t received my schedule, so I don’t know where or when I’m teaching, but hopefully I’ll have time to post all these today since I’m back in internet accessible land. It’s nice here, but so far I feel like my English would be better served at a school where kids know some English, just because I don’t know how to find out what these kids know or should be learning, because they don’t speak enough. I’ll just bumble along, I suppose, but it’d be nice to do some work with the Woman’s Union later on, too, and I’ll talk to Emmett some more about that. He seemed to think it was a strong possibility. I also have to remember to email Michael, the guy I met in Bangkok, and ask him how Hua Hin was, to see if it’s a beachy spot that Brenna and I should go to, and if he did an elephant trek. That’s the one really outsider thing that I want to do SO BAD. ELEPHANTSSSSS!!!!!