"I promise to eat KFC": Funny Student New Years Resolutions

So New Years was a lot of fun in Hua Hin, but I am not going to write a blog about it because I'd rather use this blog to share some of my favorite resolutions that my students provided me with during our New Years lesson....(as much as I tried to explain what a resolution was, some of them could still not quite comprehend what makes a good resolution)

Keep in mind that the kid's ages are 12/13 year olds and 15/16 year olds.

Below are the exact words the children wrote on their paper.

When I asked my students to finish this sentence: In 2013, I will/promise to....

1. "I promise to eat KFC" (way to start the new year in a healthy way)
2. "I promise to contemplate" (and I promise to stop contemplating)
3. "I will sleep at night"
4. "I will drink a little coco-cola"
5. "I will no eat fast food"
6. "I will grow up" (me too)
7. "I will be jocking" (This means exercise in English Thai student talk)
8. "I will be tall" (umm not to be buzzkill but...nope not gonna go there)
9. "I promise to eat cake" (you and me both kid) 
10. "I promise to diligent"
11. "I will not eat alcohol" (I cannot say the same)  

When I asked the students to write down the best thing that happened in 2012...

1. "I ate a Macaroon" (the day I too discovered the macaroon was probably one of the best days of my year as well)
2. "My mom give me the duck doll" (um...great)
3. "Eat food on my birthday" (It's always a great birthday when you get to eat)
4. "I got iPhone" (these children are borderline obsessive with their apple products) 

When I asked students to write down the worst thing that happened in 2012...these don't even need a response from me, they're just hilarious.

1. "My love car be rotten"
2. "Somebody in my room don't like me"
3. "I'm lazy"
4. "Fall from 2nd floor"
5. "The mobile phone fail"
6. "My beloved artist 'Whitney Houston' died"
7. "Nothing. Good life:)"

When I asked my students to write down this year's hopes...

1. "I hope everybody happiness"
2. "I hope Thai people are harmony and love"
3. "I hope my father don't smoke"
4. "I hope to get a ukulele"
5. "I hope to play party "

I also asked my students to draw a picture of themselves on New Years Eve. Below are some of my favorite pictures. I must say my students are quite the artists.

My favorite...I love the creeper and the freaked out girl on the left. 

Here is a link to my friend Liz's hilarious LOTR blog post on an adventurous day during our New Years vacay...p.s. She's a fan of Lord of the Rings

A Very Gangnam Christmas

Greetings all!

I'm writing this blog knee deep in the Christmas candy my family sent me. As appreciative as I am for it, it is bad news bears when I'm around free candy at arms length. If any of you reading this know me or ever in your life came in contact with me, you would know that I LOVE SWEETS. I love them so much, my self control barometer breaks and the next I know there's candy wrappers everywhere, cake crumbs on my face eh...it's not pretty. But enough about my gluttony ways...this blog is about  my Christmas in Thailand! Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra! (that's how Thai people sing Fa-la-la-la because homies can't say their L's correctly but don't worry that's why I'm here!)

Christmas was quite interesting here. You see the thing about the Thai teachers here is that even though they are really nice, they aren't very informative when it comes to letting us 'farang' English teachers know what goes on at this school. Up until a few days before Christmas we had no idea what was going happen that day or what we were supposed to do. So we finally just asked and they were like, "Oh yeah you will have a table at the Christmas carnival and you can do whatever you want". Um...okay thanks for letting us know. So we ultimately decided to have a craft table where kids could make snowflakes and Christmas ornaments. So that was our first clue to what the day would bring...a carnival oh but it was so much more.

We arrive at school and are each given big bags of candy to throw/pass out to the students during the morning assembly. Next, we are escorted into the auditorium that is decorated like crazy for Christmas. Below are some photos I took that fateful Christmas day.

Christmas 2012 at Kanchanapisek Secondary School

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My M.4/2 students drew this...I'm concerned about their views of Santa

boy you better werrrk it

So many Santas

Omg it's Christmas y'all! 

kimono dressing table

Gangnam Style action shot

family photo:)

We are then seated by the stage and greeted by the principle who is dressed up like Santa Claus. Then BAM! Christmas performances galore!

***I tried to upload videos of the performances on this blog but my stupid computer wouldn't let me or stupid me couldn't figure it out. So if I can get it load on here then I will come back and try to put them on...sorry***

Silly me, I don't know why I thought Christmas would be a day I thought I would not have to hear 'Gangnam Style'. Look I get it, Gangnam Style is all the rage these days but hasn't it had enough of it's 15 minutes of fame yet? I mean are these people ever going to get sick of it?? Cause I sure am!

Christmas night our awesome coordinator, Watana, took us to a Christmas dinner where we had some delicious food...

Not my usual Waller Christmas Mexican dinner but a great substitute:)

Even though it didn't feel like Christmas, the spirit was alive and there. It was a great day but the best part would have to be my Skype date with my family:)

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."
Roy L. Smith