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The fourteenth day of Sea-Teacher 2017, going to market

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Today is Sunday, this means that holiday. In the morning, at around eleven, I accompanied my friends to go to market. They wanted to buy a bag, and bought rice and fried chicken. Finished buy a bag   We would buy rice In the afternoon, my friends went to Singha Park, but I did not join to them because I have visited that place before. So, I prepared schedule and lessons list for key in (for my university). Then, I took a rest for a while. This all my activities today… Thanks for reading my blog… See you on my next journey...

The thirteenth day of Sea-Teacher 2017, going to Blue Temple, Singha Park, and White Temple

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Today is Saturday, August 19 th , or it can be called as weekend. This means that holiday. In the morning, at around eleven, we went to Muslim foods restaurant that near from Darul Aman mosque to have lunch. After that, we went to 7-elevent to buy mineral water and some foods. Then, we came back to hotel to take a rest. Muslim Restaurant near from Darul Aman mosque   In the afternoon, mum Sunny called us that she was in front of our hotel. She picked us up to go to Blue Temple. I just knew that Blue Temple was not too far away from our hotel. The Blue Temple is so beautiful that made us amazed. We did not want to lose moment, so we took some pictures there.  Blue Temple Blue Temple Inside of Blue Temple Blue Temple After that, we went to Singha Park. It is beautiful and large. We check in around at two in the afternoon. The payment was 50 Baht, included mineral water and shuttle bus to go around. Our schedule to go around by bus was at 03 in the...

The twelfth day of Sea-Teacher 2017, going to Samakkhiwitthayakhom School

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Today is Friday; it was raining in the morning.  We went to Damrongratsongkroh School as usual, and direct to mum Sunny’s room in the Academic Affairs to meet her. After meeting her, I went to English Department office. There were only a few teachers because some teachers, especially English teachers went to Samakkhiwitthayakhom School. There was an open house there; the tenth northern region EP/MEP open house 2017. There were many competitions, such as storytelling, speech, crosswords, and many more. The room for English Speech competitions At around ten o’clock in the morning, the headmaster of English Department, Mr. Chain Maneemool invited me and my friends to go to Samakkhiwitthayakhom School to see that event. I was in Samakkhiwitthayakhom School Damrongratsongkroh School joined the competition there We went around looking for the delegations of Damrongratsongkroh School for that event. And take some pictures. In front of training room in...

The eleventh day of Sea-Teacher 2017, celebrating the Independence Day of Republic Indonesia in Mae Fah Luang University

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Today is august 17 th , 2017; this means that today is the independence of Republic Indonesia. The exactly is the 72 nd year of the Independence Day of Republic Indonesia, our home country. We went to Mae Fah Luang University to celebrate the important moment of our home country. We celebrated this moment with friends that joining exchange programs in Mae Fah Luang University, and friends that join sea-teacher program by wearing batik. The ceremony was held at seven o’clock in the morning. We were very happy, because we could celebrate it in spite of not in Indonesia. Celebrating the Independence Day in Mae Fah Luang University After the ceremony, we took some pictures. Then, we walked around Mae Fah Luang University to take some pictures and to find halal foods. We decided to have lunch at the university’s canteen that sells halal foods. After eating lunch, we talked with friends by using bahasa. We like a family. I was wearing Batik We took some pictures ...

The tenth day of Sea-Teacher 2017, observing Ms. Cris's classes

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Today is a weekday, and I went to Damrongratsongkroh School as usual, but today was raining all day. In the school, I was direct to go to academic affairs to meet mum Sunny as usual. At half past seven in the morning, I went to English department office. There were only a few teachers, because English teachers were very busy to prepare / train students for the final competition. Observing Ms. Cris's class   I observed Ms. Cris’s class in grade seven. Actually, I observed three classes of Ms. Cris, and all of them were grade seven. She taught in the same grade, so the topic, lesson plan, method, and activities were the same between those classes. In the classroom, Ms. Cris also gave me a chance to introduce myself before class is started. Ms. Cris taught about speaking maybe, because I have heard before that foreign teachers were only given instructions to teach listening and speaking.  Ms. Cris wrote students' answer Ms. Cris elicited the material by asking ...

The ninth day of Sea-Teacher 2017, observing Ms. Steph's class, and going to Mae Sai border.

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Today is a weekday, so I and my partner go to Damrongratsongkroh School by walking as usual. We went to school at 7.30 in the morning, and straight to mum Sunny’s room to meet her. At 8.30 we went to the office; I went to English department office, and my partner to science office. Today, I only observed one class, which was Ms. Steph’s class in eighth grade (2.4). She taught speaking skill: the exactly was speaking test, and the topic was “sicknesses”. Conversation on the whiteboard   In the classroom, Ms. Steph allowed me to introduce myself first in front of class before class was starting. After that, she wrote the conversation on the white board, and students had to write that conversation and then practiced it with their partner (pair works). Each group (pair works) had to practice it in front of class (in front of teacher) without reading the conversation (students should memorize it), then the teacher scored them. Students practiced the conversation in front...