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If this post is sloppy with terrible grammar and spelling..... BLAME MY TEACHERS!
Anybody with children, will already tell you that it' a bad day today. Noise levels up, productivity in the shop/office down. Sound of breaking toys, shrieking and wailing lasting until mid morning instead of finishing at 8:00am. Yes, it's teachers day today and the perishing ankle biters are at home running riot.
Nice day off for the teachers today and having seen classes of 50 kids over here, it is well deserved. I only wish we had the same in england. One day a year where us kids could pay back our teachers for the previous years beatings, ridiculings shoutings psychotic fits (one once threw a loaded piano stool at my head) and general all round surlyness. Canings were a soft option in england reserved for soft pampered upperclass kids. We got the boot, fist toe end and various lumps of wood, blackboard rubbers, cups chalk and once, a bunsen burner chucked at us.
My mate Tom topped that off when the woodwork teacher threw a one foot long solid carved wood boat at his head. If ducking, dodging missiles, rolling punches were in the interschools sports events, we would have needed that woodwork teacher to make a trophy cabinet. Wonder what became of them? wonder if they are mentally scared from our appalling behaviour... which it was.
Happy days. They were actually we had a great laugh and certainly deserved the missiles and other cruel and unusual punishments.
Had a couple of Thai teachers in the Pie Shop this morning and we were chatting about days off, childrens day etc. and I jokingly said that next monday was Bakers Day. As it is a Christian Montesouri School and with the Nativity play still fresh in our minds, I laid it out in biblical terms. "You must come bearing gifts!...... BIG ones" We smiled and I tried to imagine them turning up with the new pick up I so desperatly need. All gift wrapped and presented, with a card, to a loving and caring baker. (Me).
Lovely school at Bang Niang and the children are truly happy at school there, never seen tears or bad behaviour and it looks like the school is going to dictate our lives. Originally, we were in Bang Nieng to escape the insane traffic grid lock or Phuket. My Island paradice is not what it was 12 years ago and whereas I used to worry about finding my house in the jungle at night, I now worry about finding my Moo Baan amongst the thousand other new Moo Baans that blight the area.
Fare thee well Phuket. We moved and it looks permanent. Certainly we will stay here until T'lad starts grade one and if the plans come to fruition for the full international school, we will stay until university time.
Happy Teachers day to all the lovely staff at Bang Niang Montessouri School.
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