Phuket Trip

On Monday I went to Phuket with the students. The trip was a lot of fun even if we were only gone for 35 hours...and 10 of those were spent driving. We took 100 students with us and only 30 of them got to go on the nice air conditioned bus with the teachers. The other students had the misfortune of riding on the fan bus with no TV or music. We stayed at an offshoot of PSU Phuket in a hostel at the top of an office building. When we got there, there were people working in the offices.

When we got to Phuket at 1 o'clock we immediately went into English and Chinese activities. After an hour of English activities Collin, Chris, and I went to our rooms to relax for 2.5 hours. Then we loaded everyone back on the buses and went to the cape to watch the sunset. After the sun set we wet to dinner at a small night market, but we were only given an hour so everyone had to eat fast. Then we finally got back to the hostel. The students had to go into yet another seminar but most of the teachers were allowed to sleep.

On Tuesday we work up at 7am for breakfast and help the girls put the extra mattresses back into the boys room (the girls ran out of beds). Then we had to grab all of our things and pile back into the bus. First we went to Wat Chalong (for an hour) and walked around. The temple was very spread out and had a lot of cool buildings. I climbed to the top of the main building with a bunch of the students. Then we went to Patong beach so the students could interview the tourists. While the students walked around and tried to practice their English we had to 'stalk' them to make sure they stayed safe. A couple of hot Germans from the cruise hit on me for a little bit after they asked what the students were doing. Then I had to run off and rescue one of my students from a belligerent tourist. On the other side of the beach one of the teachers had to save one of the girls for a tourist who thought she was a 15 year-old prostitute. The beach was an experience...thank god we were only there for an hour. After the beach we got back onto the bus to go to lunch and then head home.

We left Surat at 6:45am on Monday and returned at 6:15pm Tuesday it was a very busy 35 hours. Pictures will be up later today or tomorrow.

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