A typical day @G.V.I Thailand

8:00AM and as per usual you're awoken to a disembodied voice screaming "BREAKFAST!!". Roll out of bed and you start your day.

After grabbing some food prepared by whoever was on cooking that morning, it's time to do a quick morning base clean. Bathroom and Bins get cleaned out, Resource Lounge is swept of dirt, Previous nights lessons plans are filed away (Hopefully to their correct place...) and then it's time for the Teaching Children volunteers to hit the road.

The T.C's are out in the local schools from 9-3.30. A normal day for most T.C'S involves playing an assortment of games, being drawn on and being forced to write their names and signatures for EVERY student that surrounds them- Oh yeah and maybe doing some english lessons in between.

While all this is happening to the T.C's, T.E.F.L volunteers are sitting down in the input area. Their day consists of training, listening to teaching experiences from both staff and their trainers, feedback on the previous nights lessons, both highlights and pitfalls and more lesson planning for the upcoming nights lesson. Resources are gathered, plans are made /scrapped /edited and acted out with their fellow T.E.F.L volunteers.

If you're lucky there's a chance to cool off and relax with a dip in one of Than Bok Khorani's, the local national park, numerous swimming holes.

T.C'S arrive back with stories of their school day usually looking exhausted but exhilarated. Quick catch up and this time it's the TEFL'ers that ahve to hit the road for their own evening classes.

By 9pm everyone is safely back on base and it's time for some well deserved rest and relaxation. Games, movies, general chit-chat or a quick drink all brings the day to a casual end- Quick sleep and then it's time to do it all over again!!!!

A typical day @G.V.I Thailand