DJ Casper's Cha Cha Slide

Where to start...

I was going to post earlier but I have been rather ill yesterday and today and spent more time than I would like on the toilet. At least my legs are getting a good workout, I have never done so much squatting. I wont go into any more detail.

I am starting to feel better now but the heat is making me feel worse, so I have migrated from our house to a nice air conditioned office.

Friday night was interesting as it was the last night at our hosts house and Doni, who is 22 wanted to take us out into Ubon. We set off to town and went to a place called U-Bar. It was halfway between a club and a bar and was sort of strange as there was a live Thai band on. We started off with a tower of Heineken and met a few of Doni's friends. It was all very nice and we got a bit merry. Then we met some TEFL teachers from UK. One was from Birmingham and the other from Northern Ireland. They were very nice and pleased to meet some English people. The language barriers caused us some problems as we tried to tell Doni to take us home and we thought he was, until we ended up outside his girlfriends house and he left the car and told us to wait.
We eventually got into bed at 3 in the morning.

Saturday was unusual as we had to teach. This was due to days missed due to teacher training. Luckily I felt fine, maybe a little tired, but still had some very good lessons.

My favourite lesson was when the other teacher told me we were doing directions, so we were playing games where the class had to guide their friends around the room. The teacher then mentioned the Cha Cha slide and wanted the class to do it. I got really excited and got my laptop out and started to load it on Youtube. I then performed in front of a class of 40 16-18 year olds. They loved it!
I then got everyone to get involved and even got other teachers to join in, it was hilarious. I am going to continue with my dance lessons this week.

The weather here is quite similar to England, apart from the intense heat that is constantly around 30 degrees. It is the wet season from June to November and we currently have a small moat around our house and a swamp at our back door. This is not too bad, apart from all of the insects seek refuge in our house, so we are constantly finding them dead, in piles around the house after they have walked through our insect defences.

One of the past times I have come to enjoy is the extermination of mosquitos and other flying insects. I invested in one of those electric tennis rackets to deal with our problem. I was not sure what to expect, but it is shockingly good. (sorry, I had to do it.)

The students here are all very interested in us. In one of my lessons on Friday, I was getting the pupils to introduce themselves to me and in a class of 14 year olds, one girls said she loved me and asked for my number in front of the whole class.

I wasn't surprised. Everyone loves me. :)

Missing you all.

Love and kisses

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