U.T.W Open House 2016 and our performance!

Welcome boys and girls to the U.T.W Open House 2016! Come view our foreign languages department and pay particular attention to our very own farang gang corner!

Yes, the 11th of February was the U.T.W Open House. This is the day when primary school students come and look round our school before deciding whether they want to go here or not. All the departments put on a display. In the foreign languages department we had our stall, the Japanese stall, the Chinese stall and two others - one belonging to 1/3.

Us with the Japanese peoples

Everyone put loads of effort into their stalls - including us. Although we didn't find out that were were meant to be decorating a stall until about 3pm on the 10th. When we discovered this there was a mad rush as we tried to come up with ideas and decorations.

This resulted in stealing tinsel from the Christmas tree and cutting up ribbons and hanging them up as streamers. We also found 5 empty water bottles, filled them with sand, spray painted them red and filled them with fake flowers. We even made the 'Farang Corner' sign that's show above!

On the morning of the Open House, Nick and I tried to figure out the logistics of our game which involved sticking names of body parts to actual body parts. We came to the conclusion that this was impossible. So we needed to come up with another idea fast.

Thankfully, I had played a game called 'Splat' with my M1's on Monday and so we decided that we should just play that! 

If you're unfarmilar with the game here's an explanation:

One person (the splatter) stand in the middle of the circle.

The have a 'gun'.

They point the 'gun' at someone and say 'Splat'.

The person ducks down.
The people either side of the person have to shoot each other by saying 'Splat'

Last person standing wins.

So instead of saying splat, we got the kids to say part's of the body. It worked really well, although it did take some help from the M5's helping us and the M1's taking the kids round to explain the game.

The M5's helping us

So, the day was a great success! With some kids even promising me to come to UTW!! Yay! 

R.I.P to the pair of scissors that I lost on this day.






The next day was the 12th of February - only 2 days away from valentine's day. All this week I'd seen kids walking round with roses and giant teddy bears. Cute.

It fell to us - the farang gang- to perform on stage on valentine's day. We'd spent the past two weeks preparing the two minute sketch script as well as props and costumes.

When we got to assembly on that day - dressed in our costumers we got told that they were pushed for time so we had better make it quick. Which was cool, it was very short. However, we were all worried that we'd get cancelled. Thankfully, the show went on!

The story was about a girl called Echo who never had any luck when it came to dating. She went on a date with Alex Day. It went very badly. That was until Cupid spotted them and sent an arrow flying. The two then fell in love.

Echo was Echo. Alex was Alex. Hayden was the narrator (btw, the script rhymed). Nick was cupid and I was a Cherub who dropped rose petals and helped the arrow on its way. It was really cute and the whole school cooed when 'Alex Day' went down on his knee to Echo.

School trip to Bangkok!

On the 6th we went on a school trip with 2/1 and 3/1 to Bangkok. This was great and all but it involved being at the bus stop at 6AM.

Our first stop was Chulalongkorn University. This was such a beautiful campus!!
We went to visit the bookstore here, the majority of the books were in Thai so Alex and I left pretty promptly, but not before I bought some whiteboard markers and some a needle and thread (our washing machine does a great job of putting holes in my clothes).
After the shop Nick,Alex and I were looking at the map and deciding where to go when some of Alex's favourite M2 students came up to us and invited us to a campus coffee shop. So we walked with them across campus to go and buy a drink before everyone crowded onto two university shuttle buses to take us to - a shopping centre!

Yes, the main part of this trip was a visit to the Siam Paragon which is a shopping centre. Wow.

We were invited to go around with the same M2's as before and so we went with them to go and get KFC for lunch (how Thai).

After lunch the kids decided that they wanted to visit the aquarium on the bottom floor. Alex and I weren't too keen. It was a lot of money and once you've seen one aquarium you've seen them all. This revelation led the kids to debate between themselves. It led to two coming with me and Alex and the rest going into the aquarium. This made us feel really guilty as I'm pretty sure they kids who were with us wanted to go to the aquarium as well. So we told them that we would be absolutely fine going round the shopping centre by ourselves. After about 5 minutes of convincing we won them round and they scuttled off to the aquarium.

We looked around the centre for a bit before deciding that we couldn't really afford anything. We ended up going to the cinema just to pass the time.

The cinema was huge and buying tickets was very confusing but eventually we ended up with two tickets to see Pride, Prejudice and Zombies - which was pretty good!


The bus journey back was a lot of fun. One of the kids gave the bus driver his mix tape which was just one big party in itself! The driver then turned on the party lights. These were flashing red, blue and green lights all up and down the bus so that it looked like a proper party!

I, as weak as I am when faced with good music, started dancing in my seat. PePhom spotted me and tried to make me dance with all the kids (who were all dancing in the aisle) but I couldn't bring myself to do it. The kids weren't even my students. They were Alex's.



So yeah. Thailand. You get 10/10 on the school trip front.