English Camp!!!
Since there was no school for the Queen's birthday last Friday, Amanda held an English Camp at her high school. Obviously all of the World Teach volunteers were invited to participate and I gladly accepted. Here is me introducing myself at the beginning or camp - it's the same for every event that we are at as a group.
The camp was for students in P. 6, M. 1, M. 2, and M. 3; which is about ages 12-15. All of the volunteers who participated ran a station that each group went to for 30 minutes. There were 8 groups of about 16 students each, so somewhere around 130 students attended. We had huge group activities in the morning on Friday which included splitting the students into groups and creating a group name, poster, and cheer. The volunteers helped with different groups and the group I was helping had pink name tags and decided to be called "Lovely". Their cheer was "Hello, we are lovely" (with corresponding hand motions). It was adorable! Here is a group pic!
Before we knew it, it was lunch time and then we did the group work throughout the afternoon. I was paired to teach with one of the Thai teachers and we taught Action words. We reviewed the grammar of pairing nouns with the correct form of the verb "to be" and adding '-ing' to the words. Then we played charades. Here are some classic 'Kerry teaching' shots.
Raise your hand ...
Teaching the word "laughing".
Is this sentence okay? (He are walking)
MUCH BETTER! (He is walking)
Then after freshening up and dinner we had a "great night" (that's literally what is said on the printed schedule) where the students performed something in English (singing a song, spelling a word with their bodies, a dance party, etc.) and we had a giant dance party. The M. 6 students (seniors) who were helpers performed a dance to Waka Waka and lead other dances and games. It was their game that lead to me getting baby powdered in the face! I don't know if I have mentioned the affinity Thai people have for powder - but regardless that fact is relevant to the hilarity of this game. So the students were seated in a giant circle and there were 2 volleyballs be tossed around with music playing and when the music stopped, whoever had each ball was to choose a number and that corresponding piece of paper was chosen for them. When unfolded the paper said either the name of a teacher/volunteer/staff member or a category (tallest teacher, your friend, two teachers, a WorldTeach volunteer, etc.) a bunch of baby powder was dumped into the students' hands and then they were to powder the face of whoever it said on the paper. I was sitting next to Amanda when "World Teach Volunteer" was called and the student who had picked it was in my "Lovely" group and I had been harassing him all day ... so as he is walking towards Amanda and I we are both saying, "It's you or me ... you or me ... you or me" and sure enough it was ME. I could tell how nervous he was because of his smile and laugh and how gingerly he touched my cheeks and than RAN! It was like I had some serious cooties and I could not stop laughing! Here is a picture of me right after the attack ...
and then with num (pronounced noom) himself.
The rest of the night was dancing and fun and then finally some much earned sleep. The next morning we were up bright and early to finish out "camp". The first big group activity was singing songs and I was obviously elicited by Amanda to be her helper. Here are some pics from the morning of songs and dances.
Then Amanda's Director presented each volunteer with a T-shirt to thank us for participating. Here is the classic shot Thais LOVE to take! The shirt says "somebody in Thailand loves me very much"
After the presentations we took group shots with each group of students - here is the group that had the some of the M. 3 "bad boys" in it - we LOVED messing with them!
And our World Teach group shot in front of the English Camp Banner
The camp was for students in P. 6, M. 1, M. 2, and M. 3; which is about ages 12-15. All of the volunteers who participated ran a station that each group went to for 30 minutes. There were 8 groups of about 16 students each, so somewhere around 130 students attended. We had huge group activities in the morning on Friday which included splitting the students into groups and creating a group name, poster, and cheer. The volunteers helped with different groups and the group I was helping had pink name tags and decided to be called "Lovely". Their cheer was "Hello, we are lovely" (with corresponding hand motions). It was adorable! Here is a group pic!
Before we knew it, it was lunch time and then we did the group work throughout the afternoon. I was paired to teach with one of the Thai teachers and we taught Action words. We reviewed the grammar of pairing nouns with the correct form of the verb "to be" and adding '-ing' to the words. Then we played charades. Here are some classic 'Kerry teaching' shots.
Raise your hand ...
Teaching the word "laughing".
Is this sentence okay? (He are walking)
MUCH BETTER! (He is walking)
Then after freshening up and dinner we had a "great night" (that's literally what is said on the printed schedule) where the students performed something in English (singing a song, spelling a word with their bodies, a dance party, etc.) and we had a giant dance party. The M. 6 students (seniors) who were helpers performed a dance to Waka Waka and lead other dances and games. It was their game that lead to me getting baby powdered in the face! I don't know if I have mentioned the affinity Thai people have for powder - but regardless that fact is relevant to the hilarity of this game. So the students were seated in a giant circle and there were 2 volleyballs be tossed around with music playing and when the music stopped, whoever had each ball was to choose a number and that corresponding piece of paper was chosen for them. When unfolded the paper said either the name of a teacher/volunteer/staff member or a category (tallest teacher, your friend, two teachers, a WorldTeach volunteer, etc.) a bunch of baby powder was dumped into the students' hands and then they were to powder the face of whoever it said on the paper. I was sitting next to Amanda when "World Teach Volunteer" was called and the student who had picked it was in my "Lovely" group and I had been harassing him all day ... so as he is walking towards Amanda and I we are both saying, "It's you or me ... you or me ... you or me" and sure enough it was ME. I could tell how nervous he was because of his smile and laugh and how gingerly he touched my cheeks and than RAN! It was like I had some serious cooties and I could not stop laughing! Here is a picture of me right after the attack ...
and then with num (pronounced noom) himself.
The rest of the night was dancing and fun and then finally some much earned sleep. The next morning we were up bright and early to finish out "camp". The first big group activity was singing songs and I was obviously elicited by Amanda to be her helper. Here are some pics from the morning of songs and dances.
Then Amanda's Director presented each volunteer with a T-shirt to thank us for participating. Here is the classic shot Thais LOVE to take! The shirt says "somebody in Thailand loves me very much"
After the presentations we took group shots with each group of students - here is the group that had the some of the M. 3 "bad boys" in it - we LOVED messing with them!
And our World Teach group shot in front of the English Camp Banner
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