Matt’s Travel Blog

Sa wai dee khrap! (Hello)

I was given a Thai name by this older women.. it’s Pom cheu Romchat khrap.(my name is Romchat) which means “That which protects the emperor”.. in Thai this is a pretty kickass name. So now everyone calles me Romchat.. or Arjan Matthew (Teacher )

Thailand is still an adventure… I taught my frist couple of days at the school. It was good and also difficult. The students don’t talk much because they don’t know how to ask the questions and they are also very shy. Since im volunteering i only see each class once..except the extra smart english class which i see twice. In the end I will have taught over 2000 students in one month! Which is alot. Today i only worked 3 hrs but i was at the school all day. Somedays i will teach as much as 5 or 6 hrs. The school is not far from my home… and I ride a bike to get there.. although somedays i ride on the back of a motorbike .. no helmets.. no gloves.. all balls. .. rippin down thailand streets on a bike is pretty awesome.

Everyone..from the age of 13 and up ..drives motorbikes.. which of
course you can get most of your family on plus a few big bags of
rice.. while talking on a cell phone. I ride on the back of one to get
to school or i ride my own bicycle.. which is pretty dangerous but
none the less fun. And no matter what i do the kids laugh at me… mai pen rai! (nevermind)

This weeked im off to Si Saket province to teach an english camp..
which should be good.

The adventure continues.. i feel fine.. teaching is fun and challenging and tireing.

Matt

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