Call me Liam

I visited the school I will be doing my practice teaching at for a couple weeks.

When I biked in a teacher was there to greet me, and shew away the dogs- one who nipped me anyway. I met the principle who was very nice. He didn't speak much English, and had a hard time saying my name, as most Thais do. The say L instead of R, so my host family calls me Lachel. My principle decided I needed a nick-name, which he chose: Liam.

Anyway. The most poinient part of the afternoon was that they had a teachers meeting for over 45 minutes with all the teacher. No one was in any of the k-6 grade classes. WHOA! Not that there seemed to be any problems.

And i thought I'd have nothing to do to help train the teachers.

The big kicker is that when I met up with other volunteers who had been at their schools they almost all had similar expereinces, where teachers would just ehad off and leave the kids for a while.