Kamis, 13 Oktober 2016

SEA Teacher Project Part 5 (Orientation Class)

Yeaaaay! Finally I continue writing here, hehe... really sorry pemirsaah! (pemirsaah is overacted form of pemirsa means ladies and gentleman in Bahasa). I really busy with my internship, also with tutoring class so I barely have time to write.

안녕하세요, Elma 입니다~~~ ^^
저는 한국에 가고싶어서 한국어 공부한다. 어려워요 하지만, 포기하지 않을께요!

It's Korean letter called hangeul. Just checked on google translate if you want to know the meaning, hehe. Few weeks lately I try to come back focus on study Korean. I really determined to take my master there, that's why I learn it. It's difficult because I learn by myself, but nothing impossible as long as we believe and work hard.

Back to the topic, on the last post I’ve written until I and my friends went to ceremony of Mei Fah Luang, after that we went to another spot of CRRU, and apparently it was the best spot at the campus area : The Lake of CRRU. Actually there are several lake I think, but we visited the biggest one. It was sooooo beautiful, the lake was so peaceful with garden surround it. In the next day I visit the lake again with one of my friends (probably I’ll write it in separate post).

This was me in the lake of CRRU
Unfortunately we didn’t get much time to explore campus area. We had to attend orientation class in the international office of CRRU. On the previous post I’ve told about Ms. Nok who picked all the participants up from the airport, this time we met Mr. Teerawat Wangmanee as the chief of International Affair Division for the first time. Mr. Teerawat or usually called Mr.T (I don’t know how other people call him, but we decide to call him so, hehe) is very nice person, although at the first I felt a bit uneasy about it because looks like he is not as expressive as Ms. Nok. We also met Mr. Natthapon Santhi or Mr. Nueng, he was our mentor from English Education Department of CRRU. We expected that we would meet him often to talk and consult about the internship, but the fact we only meet him twice, at the orientation and later at the end of the program. Maybe it will be a good suggestion for CRUU, that it’s better if there is also university observer/mentor come to the class, beside observers or mentors from the school.

Ms Nok
Mr. T
Mr. Nueng
Mr Nueng speaks Englis very well, as I remember he is the first person that speaks English fluently without Thai accent I’ve met since I came to Thailand. Actually it was hard to understand Thai-lish (Thai-English), I have to listen carefully to know what people said. For example, Thai people will add extra syllable like no, na, kha, or khap in the sentence.
“Thank you, kha!”
“You already have your breakfast na?”
“It’s easy no?”
There are also some words that can’t pronounced perfectly by most of people like : because, apple, lion etc. It doesn’t matter tho, as time passed I was getting used with the accent, even I really miss Thai-Lish now, as much as I miss Chiang Rai :’(



At the class, Mr. T gave short explanation about what to do and what not to do in Thailand (for example we have to respect all things related to the royal kingdom family, we also have to respect all Buddhist figure or image). He showed us videos about culinary, culture and many more. One thing that I’ll always remember, he showed us music video of famous band in Thai, Labanoon. I forgot the song title, but later on it would be a memorable song for us, even Richsan played it every day.  In another chance, my students sang the song for me when I joined them in guitar class.
Mr. T then announced the schools that we will placed in. There were four school as shown below :
No.
Name
School
Subject to teach
Level
1.
Desy
The Demonstration School of CRRU

Kindergarten
2.
Nur
3.
Dwi
Chiang Rai Provincial Organizational School (CRPAO)
English
Upper Secondary School
4.
Halimah
5.
Intan
6.
Hani
Chiang Rai Municipality School 6
7.
Mentari
8.
Elma
Mathematics
Lower Secondary School
9.
Citra
Science
10.
Richsan
Damrongratsongkoh School
Biology
Upper Secondary School
11.
Irhaz
English

Sorry for short post. Next post I will write about places we’ve visited at the orientation program. I will continue writing soon, see yaaaa