Archive for the 'Teaching in Thailand' Category

Week of Woe for Thai University: blackmail, initiation death, and shootings

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

The past week has provide a handful of front-page-newspaper-worthy incidents involving unlucky, unfortunate, and/or misguided post-secondary students and one professor–all separate cases.

Mushroom growing in Central and Northeastern Thailand: Fungi Farms

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

One of the primary schools I am teaching at (Wat Kan Jan Jarern) has a little mushroom house โรงเรือนเพาะเห็ด that the students grow and sell oyster เห็ดนางฟ้า and white fungi เห็ดหูหนู mushrooms. I had a look inside and took 5 pics with my mobile phone before my bat ran out.

Teaching in Central Thailand photos: July to September, 2007, Samut Songkhram

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Following are pictures of the Siamerican�s third official school term, teaching at four different public schools throughout Thailand�s smallest yet most pristine province including Wat Teprasit school โรงเรียนวัดเทพประสิทธิ์ (primary), Wat Dao Doang school โรงเรียนวัดดาวโด่ง (primary and junior secondary), Wat Gan Jun Ja-rern school โรงเรียนวัดแกนจันทร์เจริน (primary), and Anubahn Bang Khon Ti school โรงเรียนอนุบาลบางคนที (primary), interacting with [...]

Chaising Rainbows…reflections of a teacher and parent

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

The sun is soon to set and I’m missing my son. I said goodbye to him and his mother at Fashion Island shopping mall up on the northern outskirts of Bangkok, as they joined her cousin, who shall send them off on their Phuket bound flight at Don Muang airport tomorrow. The past week with [...]