Chae, hails from Australia and on break from her University studies and was very keen to gain valuable experience, teaching English at a rural Thai School.

She is very enthusiastic and with her friendly, fun and dramatic methods of teaching, is already very popular with all the students.

Starting of doing 2 hours teaching Monday to Friday, Chae has now decided to commit more time and usually does 3- 4hours now.

In her first week it turned out that Mae Salaab School would be closed for 3 days, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

This was good luck for Pasak School in Banthi, Lamphun as she is now doing the 3 days there.

Next week she will resume teaching at Mae Salaab for approximately 1 month.
She has also expressed an interest in helping out with the Thai Schools English website and we hope to find time for some basic training on how to input lessons which she would then be able to do, even when she goes back home.
We hope she is just the first of many teachers that we can place in many nearby schools, all desperate for help with their English learning programs.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer teacher here in Chiang Mai please contact us to discuss the options we can offer.

It was great to see the Pasak children again, this is where I taught for nearly the full year last year. I am happy to have been able to facilitate Chaes 3 day teaching visit and hope that we can soon place a longer term volunteer here to.

Today I  visited, and shall do every Tuesday, Huay Sai School to assist with teaching English conversation to Mattayom 1.

When that is finished I will then be working on building up the courses and lessons available to users of the thaischoolsenglish website, for the rest of the day.

I also hope to find time to visit and encourage more local schools to join our program.

Todays lesson was centred on basic introduction.

Although the children were a little nervous at first we soon broke through that and I was impressed with the students efforts.

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If you are interested in the school website, please go here.

Having been very busy ensuring registration for the Foundation I had been unable to give the thaischoolsenglish project any time over recent months. Now as I consolidate my daily routine I hope to resume my assistance with this worthwhile project.

In return Khruu Khem has agreed to be a regular visitor to the home, by way of offering some independant monitoring of our work.

She will come to visit the Childrens Home and be able to speak freely with the children on all aspects of their life here at Stratton House.

With some difficulty in finding someone with the time to be able to run the Thai language site we have decided to make it a project for the children. Each week a different child will write about life here at Stratton House. Then one of the 4 eldest children will enter the stories into the site.

If this goes well we will also be featuring english language versions of their work on this site.

We hope to get started with this project this weekend.