It's been a super busy first week here in Thailand. Everyone agrees that it feels like we've been away for way longer than a week.
Last weekend we had our "key stage" team building. "Key stage" refers to the age groups that you teach. The M1, 2, 3, and specialty area groups (like physical education and music) is the key stage that I fall into. (P.s, M1, 2, and 3 are grades 7, 8, and 9).
Anyway, we went to Cha'an for team building. We stayed at a very lovely Holiday Inn (at least, I think it was a Holiday Inn), and had a lot of very fun activities used to build moral and get acquainted with each other within the key stages, especially between the Thai teachers and the international teachers. I told my group right off the bat that I can be very competitive, but I think it worked to our advantage because we ended up winning!
On the black team, me, Martine, and Jen..... representing the orange team, Mary and Reanna......and I don't know where Shari is.
One of the funner activities was one in which we needed to carry a cup full of water from one end of the room to the other without using our hands to hold onto the cup, which was attached to our heads via an elastic band. It was really fun, and we all got quite wet (which is why we are wet in the picture above) but we all welcomed this in the hot, hot weather. We also did a sort of fashion design contest. I ended up being the model, so all I needed to do was stand there while they created the dress on me, and then strut my stuff on the catwalk. We also rocked that one, if I may say so myself.
The next day we took off to Hua Hin. This part of our weekend wasn't for team building, but it was to get together with the campus 1 and 2 people (my group is at campus 3, which is about a 2 hour drive to the other two campuses, so we don't get to see eachother a lot throughout the year.) It was a lot of fun, especially since there was a beach in this town! Highlights include riding a horse down the beach (and getting a super cheesy plate from it) and getting a massage with the other girls and our prof.
Love you all!
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