First Day of School

Today was my first day of school. I had a healthy breakfast of fruit and yogurt with a all natural, organic smoothie in a juice box.
My placement is in a local primary school not far from the home base. Today I met Pitsuda or "Khun Tuk", my on site contact.  She's also the grade one teacher, head of English and the school nurse!
My schedule includes grades 1, 2, 3 & 5. Today I went over some of the grade one lessons to get ideas for activities I can implement.
After school, Delaney (another volunteer but not my roommate) and I helped the staff with some meal prep. Okay, all we really did was prepare the beans but hey the meal wouldn't have been the same without it! 
Following my hard work prepping green beans I took a nap.

Later in the afternoon I had a meeting with Pimsuda, the CCS Bangkok director, (not to be confused with Pitsuda) who has suggested I share my Montessori knowledge with the teachers at my school.  That is an awesome opportunity that I will not refuse! If you know me, you know I love the Montessori method. I'll talk this through with Pitsuda before I begin putting something together.  I wish I had my school laptop with me but that thing is probably heavier than 10 lbs on its own.
We had another Thai language lesson today - oh, I forgot to tell you! After we helped with the beans, the cook said thank you and I was able to say you're welcome in Thai! I got it right and I was even happier when she smiled and said "good job" in Thai and I knew what she was saying. Whoohoo!! Safe to say the Thai lessons are working.
Following dinner and dessert, I did some lesson planning for my grade one students based on colours and numbers.  Some of the other volunteers liked what I had found online so I saved the resource on the home computer.  When it comes to teaching resources I'm a firm believer in sharing is caring.
I think I'm all set for tomorrow. Bring on Day 2!