Last Week of School!
This week is our last week of school before summer break. (Summer break here is March-May since it is 105-110 degrees with 80% humidity during that time). We have finished finals and now comes the hard part; GRADES and individual reports for each student! My students graduate this year and head to mattyom, or high school. High school here begins at age 12, after P6. High school is VERY important in Thailand. Whether or not you attend a "good" high school largely helps to determine the rest of your life path. My students have been taking tests for weeks to get into good schools and subsequently to enter the English Program at these schools. Two of my students were gone for 2 weeks straight to attend tutoring facilities to better prepare themselves for these tests! Needless to say, they have a lot of pressure on their little 11 or 12 year old backs! So, we are spending our last few classes together having fun! We have been watching American movies, making Summer bucke...