The Foreign English teachers at Wiset School (Charlowe, Tim, Meghan)

The Foreign English teachers at Wiset School (Charlowe, Tim, Meghan)

While everyone back home is winding up for the start of the school year, we are finishing up our semester.  It’s hard to believe that we only have 5 days left of teaching.  Tim and I will see each class one last time this week.  Last week we gave verbal and written finals to the students.  My 7th graders had to write the 12 months and answer the question, “What is the date today?” verbally.  Tim’s 9th and 10th graders along with my 12th graders had to introduce themselves, verbally, by telling us where they were from, who their hero was and why, what jobs they want when done with school and why, etc.  Some classes did really well…..others….well we felt like we had just wasted 17 weeks of class.

Tim got a surprise from one of the school administrators.  She come into one of Tim’s classes as he was verbally testing the kids.  Her jaw dropped when she heard the students introducing themselves in English.  That made our week.

This week we have to start planning for our 3 day English camp, which is  at the end of September.  We also have to get our final grades in by the end of the week.  We are officially retiring as English teachers on Friday.  It has been a rough ride but we are going to miss a lot of the kids.  Since we will be done teaching we will spend the next 6 weeks or so traveling.

Here is our rough itinerary:

9/19-9/20 – BANGKOK – ATI reunion this weekend.  The group we started with in Phuket will meet to receive our TESOL certificates and spend what will probably be our last weekend together as a group.

9/20-??? – KO CHANG – Yes we’re going to check out another island.

9/28-9/30 – ENGLISH CAMP – This is the last event we are committed to with our school.  It should be great, all students who actually want to learn English and our favorite teacher friends from school.

10/1  – Move out of our apartment in Krathumbaen.

10/2 – ???  Traveling through Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos!  Can’t wait!

10/9-10/20 – Our siblings and friend are in Thailand (Liz, Peter, Josh and Jed).  We will see more of Thailand with them.

10/21-????  Last few days/weeks abroad.  Not sure at this point but probably more island time before heading home to the start of a Midwestern winter.

It has been an amazing summer….sometimes we don’t even believe it!