Communication Errors

Error Number 1 :Have you ever had the feeling that it taking you a long time to get dinner? A few weeks ago we sent out to get some Pad Thai from one of our favorite places. We had never gone there on our own, but with our friends Jay and Shuchada, so we decided to try to get there by ourself. We knew the general direction and had gotten some directions from another Thai teacher and started off. The first night we had a friendly thai person point us in the wrong direction and rode the red van to one of the main roads. we had dinner there- not Pad Thai, but we still had dinner. The next day we decided to try again. Walked to the correct road, got on a tiny van to find that they were closed. The best part about this adventure was Ed riding on the tiny van. there was no room inside the van so Ed is standing on the back and normally his head would be under the overhang but tonight it was above the roof. He was looking over the van to where we were going. You know the look when a dog has it head out the window enjoying the wind it was a little like that! I am sure we provide some entertaining stories for the people on the van that night! Day three- we took a taxi and went for lunch! Mission accomplished!

Error Number 2: We are currently in part of the rainy season. It rained real hard one night with lots of lightening and thunder. We shared with Suchada the next morning how we were surprised how much it had rained. She said that it would be like that all week and to make sure we had our umbrellas- Later that night we were out getting dinner and it started to rain a little, but we had our umbrellas so no problem until we were ready to leave. In a matter of minutes the street was flooded. It was blowing rain so hard! It took us a long and very wet time to get back to the apartment- The umbrella was not match for this storm. It was one of those time that I wished we could take a picture of what it was like.

Error Number 3: Test questions...On the final exam we found some interesting questions such as What is the meaning of the bolded word? but no words were bolded. Ed tests question was funnier- "Lucy wants to ( ) at a hospital. She wants to be a doctor. A. work B. play C. put out. it was a grade two test so I am sure that nothing was meant by it but it was funny- there was another question about a fire fighter so the answer would make since with that.

Error Number 4: We go to English camp where only Thai was used????? I had a really good time but had no idea what was going on!- the phrase ignorance is bliss explains the camp! I'm smiling because I don't understand what you are saying! The kids were good and no one got hurt so all was okay!