English Day

This past week at school we had English Day. It is actually a language day since the Japanese and Chinese teachers have booths too but a vast majority is English related. Finally, an event where I can understand what people are saying.. YES!!

So the first day was for the younger kids, who are technically not mine but I was there to help out and run some of the activities. They played scrabble, had a spelling bee, and read aloud facts about themselves to be judged on pronunciation. ADORABLE. Some of the winners were my prathom kids from my Intensive English Program so I was able to cheer them on and give them candy the next day in class :)

The next day was for the Mattyhom students and I actually planned most of the activities. They did topics and timing, read a fable from a book to be judged on pronunciation, and had a singing event/dance contest. SOOO Funny. Great video of my girls doing the 'Nobody' dance from the Wondergirls... Kpop... look it up on youtube. They did really well except that it went really slow. We could only run one activity at a time because some kids were doing multiple activities and others just wanted to watch their friends compete before they did. Also, as it got later, a bunch of kids couldn't stay and had to get back to class.

Overall it was great. They really loved the Japanese teachers who wrote their names in paint (in Japanese of course) and the singing competition was awful but so funny to watch. Some were so into it while others just stood there in a comatose state. I was also able to snap some pics of my Thai teacher crush, Love, without seeming like a complete sketchball. Anytime I can avoid complete embarrassment it's been a good day.

naaalak. so beautiful.