Hot Town, Summer in the City...

The end of the school year with my class wasn't quite as emotional as I was expecting it to be. Coming at the very end of school (for both teachers and students) meant that my kids were coming off 4 straight days of testing, and that I was running around like a madman trying to get all my grading done, my copious amount of useless end-of-the-year paperwork completed, and print out certificates for my kids, while fighting off all the other teachers trying to get all of their paperwork done and printed on our one printer. So I was frazzled, and the kids were off the wall! 2 days of English tests, 2 days of Thai tests...they finished at about 2:30 and spent the last hour and a half in the cafeteria for an end of the year party. Which consisted of all the left over candy and snacks from the whole year, along with eleven birthday cakes from the combined first grade classes summer birthdays. Straight mayhem. And because it was the afternoon of the last day, and everyone was so wound up and ready to get out of there, we escaped an emotional parting like my one a few days earlier with my ESL class. And honestly, it was better that way, cause I don't think I could have handled another one! Got some hugs goodbye, and we were all out the door an onto summer, a child's (and teacher's) best friend.

My lazing around was short lived though, as Lex's sister arrived from San Fran on Monday. We did the cooking school with her (my third time - the staff was actually having me help out.) Hung around Chiang Mai, helped show her around. OK, I guess mostly Lex and Adam showed her around, and I helped a little but was mostly just super lazy. And I don't know what it was, maybe I was recalling my time before I got a job here when I just laid in bed all day and was pretty depressed and didn't even know it, but I was done with doing nothing after like 3 days. Which was perfect, because on Friday we left for our vacation!

TPWWLT - 'Summer In The City' - St. Lunatics