We have all returned from visiting our various assigned sites. An apology to those of you who enjoy our photos. Although we have many we do not have the capability to upload them right now. But we do promise to put them in the blog as soon as we can.
Once we were all back we got together to share our adventures with each other. We all seem to have had a "great adventure" in various ways. Buying tickets in Thai, a tonal language, can be challenging. If you say, for example, I would like a ticket to Philadelphia in a rising tone but really wanted to go to the Philadelphia that is in a low tone you can wind up not only in the wrong town but also in a completely different part of the country - like instead of Pennsylvania you wind up in Montana!
Some of our volunteers returned knowing exactly where they will be living for the next 2 years - a specific house. Others of us have not as yet decided on a house as of yet. So we will return to our site and stay with a host family while we continue to look for just the right spot.
Our volunteers are going to live EVERYWHERE in Thailand! From the very north, to the very south, as far east as you can imagine as well as as far west as the eye can see and still be in Thailand -- in addition there will be some of us sprinkled about the inner areas too.
We still have some time to learn more (stuff) before we go. But once we go our separate ways we will definitely miss each other.
This past Saturday the teaching component of PC held a teacher training camp. There were 200 Thai teachers of English in attendance as well as all teaching volunteers. We had a really good time and the Thai teachers seemed to enjoy themselves too. Now they have some new ideas they can use in the classroom if they wish.
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