Happy Harroween!!

That's how Thai kids say that. Its weird how if they're suppose to make the "l" sound, it always comes out as an "r" sound. And vise versa. So if I were to tell them to say whole, they would say whore. And if I tell them to say whore, they would say whole. Of course I would never tell them to say things like whore. Today was Halloween! I told all of my classes yesterday that if they paid attention and participated in the lesson, they could dress up for today! Not surprisingly, only my third graders made it and got to dress up. They were all zombies. Zombie football players. Zombie super heroes. Zombie students (for those who forgot to dress up). There was even a zombie baby. We had so much fun going to other classes and scaring them and throwing candy at them. The other teachers would smile at me but I knew they were cursing me in their heads. When we got back to the classroom we had a scary face drawing contest. You got 5 points for participating and some people got 0s. And this one girl who finished early helped my try to remember everyone's name. It was so sweet. Some of them have weird nicknames because they just pick words they see. So we have First, Cartoon, Nut, Ape, and Titty. That last one is lovely. I haven't mustered up the courage to call her that yet.

My last class today was fourth grade. We did pretty much the same thing but no dressing up. And one kid brought a football and after everyone turned in their pictures we went to the courtyard and played some football for the last half of the class. My team won of course, because do you know who my father is?? We won 3-2! The girls did girl stuff like jump road and something where they all sit in a circle on the ground and giggle every few minutes. We had a blast! And even though it rained harder today than I've ever seen in my whole life, it was super sunny and super hot while we were playing and I sweat all the way through all my clothes. Luckily, I have a pool at home and I took full advantage of it when I got back.

Tomorrow, I plan to explore Phuket town and spend most of the day at the beach! Hopefully while I'm there I can look for alternative housing and maybe a weekend job or something like that. But today is Friday and I am a teacher and I will eat ice cream and watch TV by myself and go to bed early! Such is the life of a 24 year old teacher in Thailand.