Thailand Teaching Internship Ao Luk
It has
been five years since GVI first came to Ao Luk and in that time many
friendships have been formed and many links between GVI and the local
community. However, the time has come and GVI has left Ao Luk, leaving behind
myself and Lee to continue on their good work in the community.
We
have just finished the fourteenth week of our internship, and third of our
teaching placement in Ao Luk. Although it is only three weeks since we started
our placement, it feels like months since we were left here by ourselves. Our
students have taken it upon themselves to make sure that our stay in Ao Luk is
the best it can possibly be. Plus with the amount of food they are feeding us I
reckon they are trying to fatten us up. But I definitely won’t be complaining
about that as the verity of food we get to eat is incredible, plus it means I
get to eat more than chicken fried rice and pork noodles which are the only two
things I have mastered how to order in Thai.
All that aside there is a
serious element to the work that we do here. We maintain the day to day running
of the NFE centre where we teach four nights a week from five until half eight.
Although there is nothing officially organized to fill our mornings we have
been teaching children during the week in one of the local schools. This has
provided us with a great experience teaching children between the ages of three
and seven. Although school officially goes on holiday for a month from the
tenth of October there is still plenty of work that can be done in the
community if you just look for it. As such we will be teaching at an English
school, which is being set up and run by a few of our students for a week,
which will be incredible as it shows how far our students have come since
joining GVI.
Although
we are less than half way through our placement so much has happened already
and it is hard to put it all into words. Suffice to say that so far it has been
incredible staying here and I don’t think I could have asked for a better
selection of students if I could have
picked them myself. The warmth and patience (when dealing with my very limited
Thai) is amazing and without them I doubt the placement would be as rewarding
as it currently is. The warmth from the students will make life a lot easier
for whomever remains here for the final term of the year, and it is that
knowledge which makes both of us happy to stay here if needs be.
James Leonard, Teaching English Internship, Thailand
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