Vibrant. Confusing. Holistic. Electric.
These are just some of the words I could use to describe a week here. Plans are always changing. A teacher has to be flexible, quick on their feet and creative to keep up. There is no printer or photocopier at the school so the teachers have to email the office to print off all our notes and copies in advance. Sometimes they don't quite make it in time... which makes for the best kind of lessons. It's challenging, but that's life. Sometimes the school has no power, sometimes the internet is down so that sweet interactive lesson you planned becomes, well, the best you can do.
This week 20 students from a Korean school are staying at our school and seeing what the situation is like in Mae Sot. They are doing events with our students and helping in various way in the community. It's a really cool partnership. I hope I can get something like this going one day.
Last night I went to my first Burmese concert and ....Amazing. A Burmese rapper named Sai Sai dropped some sick beats (actually they were the same beats ripped off from western songs but sung with Burmese lyrics) and a Burmese pop singer, named R Zani, who is a big deal across the boarder, here's a link to one of his songs (guess which song is used to make this one). The concert was amazing, the crowd went crazy and was dancing (and fighting) the entire time. We blamed the fight on my tall friends because their was a gap behind us because no one could see if they stood behind...which created an arena for a fight to break out in. A great night.
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