The Hungarian Padthai

All is well that ends well - writes Shakespeare - and once again, (always?), he's right! My day started with the amount of frustration or even anger (towards myself, that I'm so lazy I don't even speak Thai yet.... etc.) and the feeling that I can't understand people and can't make myself understood. Anyway, the end of my day made up for the rough start! :-) Well, let's start at the beginning, then.  Since all my friends cancelled on me today and I thought the day should not be wasted, I thought I need to do something. I thought of a day trip to Ayutthaya which is not far from Saraburi and would be interesting to check out since this was the ancient capital of Thailand (Siam). My one and only Thai friend (who speaks really good English by the way!), didn't give me the correct information about the trains  - which is okay and it happens sometimes. So then I was off to take the bus. The bus - I wouldn't have thought - took about 2 hours to arrive!!! All th...

 My fairy tale project is slowly coming towards its end, so let me sum up to you fellow teachers - and even to you who are not a teacher because it was just sooo interesting for me to listen to Thai fairy tales and legends for the first two weeks in my school! You know, I don't really get to travel now (virus, plus dorm-stay, plus no licence so I can't even leave the territory of the dorm.... etc.), but I got to travel with these fairy tales!  Look at the project works: aren't they beautiful? When I started to teach them, they were just finishing up the short story so I thought why not jump to the fairy tales, as these things have so much in common! First, I asked them to bring a fairy tale and retell it, then in the rest of the week we were making scrapbooks from their favourite tales. It went really well! (See the results above.) During the process, we also discussed the concept and definition of the fairy tales (I used loop input for that, yay!), and then today they had ...