I'm back in Bangkok. I would post more but the dial-up internet in Ban Bung is like nails on a chalk board.

Hmmm... what did I do this week We did end up going to I, Robot which wasn't a great movie but the whole experience was pretty fun. Before the movie we all stood for a photo-montage of the King. This was made more bizarre because the theatre was state of the art and almost empty.

Wednesday night I went to dinner with Brad's friends without him.

Thursday Brad and I went to dinner with the director of my school, her husband and the Japanese couple. I mentioned that I really don't like Thai breakfasts. Breakfast is just like any other meal, rice and curry or rice and meat. BLEH!! First thing in the morning! So this morning I went to her apartment and she made toasted bagels with peanut butter which was sublime. Also, her apartment is very swank, all white and minimalist with white stools like Ma tts and multi-storied. She mentioned more than once that if I had any friends who wanted to come and teach to hook them up. So email me if you're interested...

I taught 18 classes this week. In all of the classes we worked on out Ls and our Xs (this class has been brought to you by the letter L and the letter X) . Some of the english teachers are so awful. Basically my job is to teach correct pronunciation. This one english teacher has been driving me up the wall. I say the word correctly and then she "translates" it into Thai-english for me. And the kids have better pronunciation that she does! Everything I'm doing is a hands-on application of everything I learned in my linguistics course (minimal pairs and all that). I'll write a post on the Thai language soon. I feel like what these kids actually need is a speech pathologist to tell them what should be going on in their mouths. Anyway, more later. I'm meeting Jackie tonight which will hopefully work out.