Day 21 - 22 (Saturday, August 6 2016 & Sunday, August 7 2016)

It seems like I count the stones now. I saw my phone this morning and I was surprised that I have spent my days for 22 days in Ayutthaya. For these two days, I spent my time to refresh my mind from all my tasks with school and university. On Saturday, we went to Bangpa In Palace (Summer palace) and Floating market in Ayutthaya. We enjoyed the moment very much. You will see how nice the journey was from my pictures.

PS: I also added some pictures from the previous day when I was teaching at school ^^

Day 18 -20 (Wednesday, August 3 2016 – Friday, August 05, 2016)

These three days were so busy for me. These days I had spent with teaching. I started the class on Wednesday and finished on Friday. I taught M. 1 / 4. It was the first grade from Junior High School. I had discussed with Ms. Pimphaka (I usually called her Ajarn Pim) and the result was I taught three times and the main skills were speaking and vocabularies. She helped me in many ways and she also helped me to calm myself from my nervousness. In the first day, I had a little problem. It was the first time I entered the class and I could not handle the class because I was too excited so Ajarn Pim told me some advises so I could do well on the next days. For two days after that, everything seems good.

She also told me that I had a good idea and the creative one. I was thankful to have her as my classroom supervisor. 

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Day 14-17 (Friday, July 31, 2016 – Tuesday, August 02, 2016)

                Those days were so awesome but tiring. I went to many places and enjoyed the scenery. On Saturday, I went to Grand Palace with the students from VRU. I went from the dorm in the early of morning and went after the sun set. The scenery was beautiful anf I was so thankful to see there.

On Sunday, I went to the Wat Mongkol Market and Ayutthaya Floating Market. There were great, too.

On Monday, I discussed my lesson plan with Ajarn Pim, my advisor at school. She helped many things about the lesson plan.

Wednesday is my teaching practice. Pray for me ^^

Day 12 & 13 (Thu, 27 Juli 2016 & Fri, 28 Juli 2016)

Hello. I’ll back. These two days were very tired but awesome. I had many classes to be observed. Actually, I took a note what the teacher did in the class but I still got nervous to think about it. I also prepared my lesson plan to teach. Hopefully, I can go through this week and get ready for teaching. Please, pray for me. 

Day 11 (Rabu, 27 Juli 2016)

This day went on as usual as yesterday. I went to school and did the observation. I had three classes today. Two of them were Ajarn Elena’s classes. She was a native speaker and she cannot speak Thai. She taught Listening and Speaking class for class 1 (first grade in Junior High School). This day, I got the textbook and the syllabus so I started to arrange it. Hopefully, I could finish it in a few days. 

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Day 10 (Selasa, 26 Juli 2016)

This day were so busy. We had to go to school on time and joined the ceremony. We also observed three class today with different grades and teachers. The first class we observed was Aj. Suwapak’s class. She taught class 3/1 (same as third grade of Junior High School). She taught the class for 50 minutes. There were 40 students and they learnt about Thanksgiving. They do the reading aloud and they answered the questions by writing it on the whiteboard. They used textbook from Oxford titled Got It level 3. She used English in daily conversation to explain the topic. I loved their scout uniform, so I asked them to take a photo with me.

The second class was grade 4/1 (same as first grade in Senior High School). It was taught by Aj. Pattaporn. She had 100 minutes and the students were 22 students in the class. She started the class with collecting the students’ assignment and she made a game in class. The game was about list of vocabularies and there was one student who will say yes or no based on the other students’ questions so they could answer it by collecting the hints. The last thing they did in their class was peer editing for their letter which was written by them and their friend would revised it.

The third class was the friendliest class. It was grade 1/1 (same as the first grade of Junior High School). It was taught by Aj. Pimpaka and it had 27 students there. The time allocation was 50 minutes. Their lesson was usually about reading and little bit of speaking (it is used to answer the questions from the text orally). In this class, the students were very cheerful and they were so attractive. The students were so happy when the teacher gave them candies.

Before I went home, Ajarn Sunee gave me the syllabus so I could make the lesson plan. Unfortunately, I had to meet Aj. Pimpaka so I could discuss the topic with her.

Wish me luck!

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Day 7-9 (Sabtu, 23 Juli 2016 - Senin, 25 Juli 2016)

On the seventh and eighth day, they were holiday. So, I just spend the weekend by visiting weekend market that took place in the university area. They sold many things there, such as food, clothes, shoes, fruits and so on. However, for this weekend I didn’t buy anything because I felt I can’t bargain and I still have many days in Ayutthaya.

On Monday, the ninth day, I started my observation schedule in the Lab School (Secondary School). This day I had two classes to be observed. Unfortunately, I only came to the first class because I had an online meeting with SEAMEO. The first class was taught by Ajarn Nan. I had met her before when she invited us to go around the mall in Ayutthaya. She was very nice and friendly. She started the class and told her students that they were going to do the review as the preparation for the mid-term and she asked her students came in front of the class to tell the abbreviation that they usually find. The students were coming in front of the class and told some familiar abbreviations, such as BF (boyfriend), GF (girlfriend) and so on. After the students told it, she asked other students to write down which words they did not know before.

For the review, she asked her students to work in groups, three big groups that consisted of 7 persons, and they made poster based on the topic: passive voice, past tenses and auxiliary verbs. They were given 1.5 hours to finish it. They had to summarize and made 5 questions as the exercise. After they finished it, there would be some representatives from the group who would present the topic. Next, Ajarn Nan would divide some balls randomly to others students to tell what they got after listening to their friends. After that the students who got the balls would stand up and told their opinion about the topic. Unfortunately I could not finish the class because I had to meet Ms. Cherry and Afifah to do the online meeting. We have done the only meeting until 12 o’clock and I had my lunch at university canteen.

Actually, I remembered the Thai students are very polite and nice. They also greet their teachers first. That’s what I have to do in my country: to be polite and nice.

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