A is for Tuna?

Sawatdee kah!

We have spent another two enjoyable days at school since Charlottes mammoth post! I'll try to be as detailed as she was!
Thursday we were welcomed by lots of smiley children all bowing to us (a wai) which was lovely. We have to exercise with them at 8am following a DVD exercise program, then we teach! As they are so young we only sit them down for about an hour before they start to get restless. Today we taught ABC's again...the teacher asks us to teach them this every day because they have trouble reading them the words...the words that come up on their DVD for A are apple, ant and tuna (?) We avoid that one. They seem to do most of their learning in front of the TV, it's always on. In England TV at school is a treat!

After school we were taken to the guesthouse where the conservation volunteers live and had a meeting before heading to Ao Nang to arrange our weekend. We managed to get a great price for 3 nights on Phi Phi Island. We are staying in a hotel on the beach including breakfast and it cost us 6900BHT including boats there and back...that's 70GBP each. We are chuffed with our bargain and hopefully will come home with more money than we expected to! On the bus home from Ao Nang (buses here are pick up trucks with benches in the back!) we saw an elephant being led along the road, it was so surreal!

Today (Friday) at school we did the usual teaching English and exercising...we get so hot its ridiculous jumping around in the 35+ heat with trousers and t-shirts on! The teachers asked us if we wanted to stay later and have some papaya salad. We said yes and arranged to be picked up late thinking it would be a nice refreshing fruit salad. When she got the ingredients out there was papaya and limes (fine) then...dried shrimp, whole crabs and chillies. We declined on the crab and chillies but felt bad saying no to everything so had to have the shriveled shrimp. I would have loved to have tried the whole lot but we have both lost our appetites due to the heat. And I didn't fancy whole crushed crab (shell included) in a fruit salad. Considering Charlotte doesn't like seafood, I'm proud to say we both ate it. It also had a kind of caramel paste, sugar, green beans and tomatoes in it...won't be having papaya salad in the near future! All of the drinks here are so sweet, we had hot chocolate for breakfast yesterday (which was given to us in a bag) and drinks at school, including iced tea, all seem to have tonnes of sugar in...great if you have a sweet tooth like we do.

Tonight we are heading to Krabi town with our family as they are treating us to a meal, and will get up early for the boat to Phi Phi in the morning.

Anyway got to go...we have lesson planning and packing to do!

Amie & Charlotte xxx