Boo!
It's been awhile since my last post...and as usual that simply means my life has settled into a routine, and when it settles into a routine I often forget that my routine might actually be interesting to someone else...
A couple weeks ago or so we had the sports week opening ceremonies. The entire school is divided into teams, Pink, Yellow, Red, Green, Blue and Violet. Within these teams the students compete in many different sports. Sort of like the Olympics. Anyways the opening ceremonies were fancy. They started in the late afternoon with a parade. It was very elaborate, the students had made a ton of costumes, all different and all elaborate. Each team seemed to have some sort of theme, I'm not quite sure what they were. There was a parade, a speech, flag raising, and an actual torch that was lit. It was really a lot of fun to watch.
They started the sports off with a female teacher versus student council soccer match. That was not so much fun to watch, but eh. All an experience. After was a male teacher versus male teacher game. Both of my other English teachers participated, one on blue team and one on orange. I did try to cheer...though instead of cheering I just took some pictures. I mean really, this screaming and yelling thing what?
The closing ceremonies are coming up soon, the end of this week I believe. That is supposed to be a whole day affair with more costumes and performances and who knows what else...it will certainly be a fun day though!
Mid-terms are fast approaching here, even as the middle of summer is approaching on the other side of the world. I wrote my first 60 question multiple choice mid-terms last week. They start in the middle of the week, oddly enough. I'm not sure what the schedule is going to be like, but I'm just going with it. Thinking so much about them has made me forget that it's still only the first week of July...my mind is focused on the end of the month! Plus we're supposed to have a 4-day weekend coming up and oh the trials of figuring out where to go for that one...
My weekends have been pretty quiet, a lot of relaxing. So finally, this weekend, I decided to go somewhere. I researched train times, got up early and went to the train station. Of course, I either dawdled too much, or the train I planned on catching never came because I got a ticket for a later one. So I arrived at Lop Buri a few hours later than expected. No big deal. I started wandering and found a cool museum. I enjoyed the architecture and buildings more than the actual artifacts but that's not too surprising. And long story short, I got thirsty, drank a bottle of cold apple juice and not long after felt sick. It's like my body is telling me "screw you Emily, don't go adventuring". I still explored and trekked on a while longer visiting a couple more temples and looking at some of Lop Buri's ruins. Ayutthaya's are better I think.
Finally, when I was about to give up, I found some monkeys! They were just casually climbing along the power lines. I followed them to their nesting spot, where the entire family was hanging out on top of some buildings across from a small bit of ruins. There were a couple baby monkeys small enough to be carried around by their parents. It was very cute! Although I didn't find the temples where you can feed the monkeys, it was fun. I will have to go again (and print a map or something) to go to the monkey temples themselves.
I am a little glad for the formal clothing required by school. None of your collarbone area can be showing...and that just means that none of my teachers or students will see the little bag strap sun burn I have going on. I guess I sort of forgot about the sun...I'm so used to being in the heat and teaching in the heat that I figured I could just keep trekking. No problem, right? Wrong! Being used to the heat and being used to the sun are two different things...and a couple hours versus twenty minutes makes a difference. Next time I will definitely remember, hopefully that will help avoid issues with heat and the sun...somehow I shall adventure!
Well...there went my organized thought process that I began with. Tschuess!
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