The Beginning

It all began in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, when I made the last minute decision to accept a job down in Southern Thailand. I had been applying for months to many different locations, but was waiting for the perfect one. Minimal time was spent job hunting when I was traveling with my family for the two previous weeks, but after I received an offer down in Hat Yai a successful skype interview was the last piece to the puzzle. I immediately bought a cheap plane ticket down to Bangkok to retrieve my huge suitcase full of supplies that'd been waiting for me for weeks, as well as a connecting flight later that day. Flying over the flooded city was definitely an eye-opener, seeing much more immersed land than I had presumed. But after arriving safely and then departing soon thereafter, I made it down to Hat Yai late Sunday night. With no time for anything but sleep, I was in the classroom on Monday morning teaching fourty kids. Another fourty were infront of me in the afternoon and I ended my first day with an overdue chat with the director. Not speaking much English, he could only express how very impressed he was that I made my way across the whole country in 24 hours on such short notice. Proving a good first impression, I got off to a suprisingly good start. The week only got better from there, meeting my extremely kind students who desire to spend as much time as possible with me. I understood that they simply want as much exposure to English as they can get, and I couldn't think of a better candidate myself lol.

The students at my school lined up for the daily anthem