Winners!

We had our next big speech competition last Saturday! This one was at our school, Wat Metang, and had a ton of random competitions.  Crossword puzzles, spelling bee, (where you write the words down instead of saying them out loud) dance, band, question and answer, storytelling and on and on.  Mel and I came for part of the day to support Nuey and Poom.  They WON! Now they move on to the Northern championships in Chiang Mai! Yay! Our school won a lot of the other competitions also...it seemed a little like cheating since a lot of our teachers were judges but no one else seemed to mind so...whatever! 

The Lockers, Nooters, Teacher Tiantong (Mel's 3rd grade co-teacher), and Teacher Puey (My 6th grade co-teacher) took us out with four other students, Nuey and Poom included, to celebrate the winning! It was cute, we went to this place called Hot Pot at our little fake mall.  They laughed at everything we ate, talked in Thai for most of the dinner while we stared at them hoping to understand, and then told us we would get fat if we ate too much ice cream...gotta love it.

Lockers also told us that since there will be so many new American teachers coming next semester, the latest count is six, (KATE included yay!!!!!!!) that we will all be teaching one grade instead of three.  Mel will be teaching third and I will be teaching sixth.  I am a little nervous because my lessons will have to be way harder and more in depth because I will see 6/1 and 6/2 three times a week and 6/3-6/7 two times a week.  But they are also really fun because they understand more and can joke around and play. So, pros and cons to everything I guess! Next semester is definitely going to be totally 

different! 

Mel leaves in two weeks to go back to Texas for her cousin's wedding, and I am planning for three visitors and for Kate to move here! :-) It seems like everything is just flying by...

Speech winners!

So on Tuesday, I am sitting at my desk just minding my own business when a man comes in and starts talking to the Lockers. Then she goes over to 6/3 and calls a boy out and talks to him for a second. He goes and gets five more boys.  She starts YELLING at the five boys like I have never seen before.  She is a seriously intimidating woman but it is more with the glare and in the eyes.  I am trying to decode the Thai and figure out what is going on when she grabs some scissors and starts cutting random sections of hair on the five boys heads making it look like they got a very choppy haircut.  Then she takes a ruler and starts smacking them. They wai her and the man and all go back to class.  The man leaves and I am like uhmmm what just happened??! She starts laughing like this happens everyday and explains that the first boy got beat up by the five boys last week and then again today and was afraid to tell her (go figure) and so called his dad. (the man) The dad came and told her and she punished them by smacking them. Yeah ok and the cutting of the hair? Oh the cleaning committee is coming tomorrow and Pratom 6 is supposed to have short crew cuts so they prepare for high school so she made their hair look ugly so they will get it cut...oh sure that all definitely makes sense.

The Lockers cutting naughty boys hair...