Monday- Fail.

Monday- what a day...

If there was one word to sum up this attempt at a day, it would be, "FAIL". 

To start out, the internet wasn't working last night, so Ari and I couldn't connect with anyone back home, which was the one thing we wanted to do after a long and BUSY weekend. We also couldn't blog or watch a movie, which were the next two things on our to do list. Because that was a bust, we simply went to bed.

This morning was a STRUGGLE to get up, as the alarm came about four hours too early for my liking. After finally rolling out of bed, Ari and I attempted to get ready. We went to Auntie's school for the day, which was another very interesting experience. Besides one student, not one person there spoke English. That was problem number one. The second problem was that we were left alone in a classroom to teach.. without being told what to teach. We were with those students for two and a half hours... there is only so much English that a student can learn and retain in a day... we hit that mark about an hour into the day. Ari and I improvised for the rest of the time. At around eleven thirty, we met Arunrat and another teacher for "steak". Apparently, steak is something else in Thailand, as it could be any type of meat... fish steak, chicken steak, etc. Ari and I split spaghetti and fried chicken (very similar to sweet and sour chicken). 

After lunch, we headed back to our school for the last two periods of the day... well.. kind of. We got up to the class on time, and they told us that we didn't have that class during that period. Well, according to our schedule, we did! We had been given the wrong schedule, and therefore missed our first class, which was at 12:30 that day... Thank goodness for the Thai's "don't worry, be happy" attitude, as they didn't see it as a huge deal. Ari and I taught our eighth grade class the last hour of the day, laughing at ourselves the whole time.

We tried to have the class play telephone, but they were naughty and wouldn't stop cheating- it was frustrating. Also, we are pretty sure a boy set another boy's leg hair on fire during class... Ari is pretty sure she saw a flame.. I was on the other side of the room.

Only in the lives of Ari and Kenzie would this happen. All of it.

Until next time,

Xoxo Kenzkeg