A Good Day - Genie

Today is going really well.

It started yesterday afternoon. We discovered that we have a surprise vacation in July! For two weeks in July, our school shuts down for a military training.

You know what that means? Vacaaaaa! We're thinking Chang Mai. If you have other suggestions, we'd love to hear them in comments!

So that's a great way to start an evening. After that we walked home, jumped in and out of the shower, ate our delicious street food, and got to work lesson planning.

After about two hours, we called my mama and talked for an hour or so. We got to tell her about all of the funny stories that have happened over the past week and honestly, complained quite a bit. 13/10 for great listening, Mom.

After that we went to bed. We're old people now. In bed by 22:30, up at 6:30. (Ok. Amanda gets up at 6:30 and drags me out around 6:43. We already knew she was the real MVP here.)

We walked to school (it's already hot here in the morning - about 28 degrees!) (That's like 82 for my non-metric folks.) and I have my favorites today. All day. Don't tell the others, M3 is my favorite. Their English is at a high enough level (mostly) that they get a few jokes. Today we talked about unzipping genes.

One of the boys in the back piped up: "Aren't genes pants?"

Well, then we got into genes vs jeans and how they are pronounced the same. So the M3 class is now all aware that helicase is important for unzipping genes and consent is important for unzipping jeans.

I have M3 again this afternoon for health.

Conveniently we're learning about sex ed. :)

Tonight, Amanda and I are going to this adorable little coffee shop down the alley from our apartment. She pinky-promised, so obviously it's happening.

So I'm raising my bubble tea to the first successful day of teaching 2/3 under my belt.

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Thai Words of the Day:

Smile: Yim (rhymes with him)
Cheek: Kam (pronounced like the cam in camera)
Milk Bubble Tea: Cha num kai mook