The Hungarian Padthai

Fridays are special in the school's life (so also in mine). Not only because I feel especially brainwashed a.k.a. completely tired but also because Fridays are Sport days!!!! :-) Yeyeyeye! For teachers: it's for 2 hours just to relax and watch our teams play (at least that's what I naively thought!), for students: making them more tired for the weekend (and more clothes to wash for parents!).  No, anyway, in the school there are no PE classes, so that's how it's sorted out. Every week the students are organized in groups according to their houses (yes!), and they play volleyball or basketball or soccer. It's fun! :-) (when the sports hall has a ventillation system) and it's not so fun when you need to run around in 35+ degrees (not Fahrenheit this time).  Theoretically, I should have helped my house (more details later) but I just felt so overwhelmed after the whole week so that I was only chatting with some of my students - whom I didn't even recognize ...

 As I expected, a lot of impulses and stimuli have come to my life after I had finally broken free from the hotel. I must admit, I miss the predictable schedule of that. I feel that I'm surrounded now with so many more things here in my real life, that I can't take all of them at once.  In the second morning what I spent in the dorm, I woke up to this beautiful sunrise.  But let's start from the beginning. The school van - as promised - came and picked me up on time, and from the first moment, I felt so much humbleness and gratefulness both from the school's part and from the hotel's part as well. Like I got flooded with presents (which if you already carry two full bags) is not the best idea, but I was really really grateful for that, as well! :-) I got folk purse, and also an apron that I can (and should) wear when I visit a Buddhist temple (to which I'm looking forward to!).  When we arrived to the dorm, everything was very strange for me at once, I felt so o...

 When I arrived at the hotel, I was very sleepy and tired, still, I had to force myself to stay awake, until 8 pm, in order to send the first temperature measurement.  I cannot stop looking at the view for the whole time... it's so beautiful! Busy, bustling and lively, but from far atop, it has its charm!  The hotel is very strict which also means, it's well-organized. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served at the same time: breakfast around 8 am, lunch around 12:00 and finally, dinner around 5 am. All the communication with the hotel (and the nurse) should be carried out via Line application. It's nice! They send us a menu that we can choose from, and they also send us necessary information. Temperature measurements should be also sent with photo attached.  One of the advantages of stayin in the hotel is that I had to start to appreciate the time with myself and now I also have the time to treat myself! So the other day, I just took a long bath, like for real, sitti...

  Not long ago, I decided that I would like to live in Asia. Not only because I have some friends here, but also because I (still) feel so connected to South America so that I need to see if I really belong there - or rather here. Anyway, many thanks to an old university acquaitance who helped me with a welcoming school and here I am. I mean... here I will be... in 2 weeks. :-) As, at the moment, I am still in Bangkok, spending my quarantine.  Let's start from the beginning then! In the normal case, it would be enough to get a work permit to work in Thailand and get a Non-Immigrant visa, but this was something else above the normal case: travelling during the pandemy (especially moving during these times) has been made extremely difficult - or let's say, just wants to test your persistence. First, I needed to sort out a quarantine hotel, (in other words Alternative State Quarantine, or ASQ), which is not possible without having your plane ticket arranged - to which you obvious...