Hardly anyone uses chopsticks here. Instead everyone uses a spoon and a fork. But the fork is only used to push things into the spoon. Even noodles in soup.
 
Anyway last night we were going to go to I Robot but that's happening tonight. Instead we went to Ban Saen beach around 9:30 and drank beers bought from 7-11 in cups with ice. It was me and all of Brad's male Thai friends. The only one who really speaks english is Brad's best friend Tam and he's the greatest. 
 
Funny Tam comment:  "I think Thai people are funnier than Americans. I watched America's Funniest Home Videos on tv and I didn't laugh once."
 
I work 18 hours a week. Mon-Wed 4 hours between 8:30 and 2:30 and Thurs and Friday 3 hours between 8:30 and 12:30. Pretty slack. I teach all of the grades 5 - 8 students one hour a week.
 
So far my typical workday:

• Get up for 7:30 breakfast. I have this at the school with the Japanese couple.
• Teach english
• Have lunch in the school cafeteria at 12:30
• Teach another hour of class
• At 2:30 I'm done. Read, have a nap and/or find some internet
• At 4 or 5 I swim. I started actually doing training swim swims. Adam or someone should email me suggestions.
• Then shower
• The around 7:30 go to the basketball court
• Eat with Brad and his friends in the market, which actually seems like an open air food court. The food is fantastic and never costs more than a dollar (for meal and drink). No one really speaks english so the conversation goes between me, Brad and Tam talking english and everyone except me talking in Thai. I expect that Brad will one day be fluent in Thai...