Second Week (Assistant Week)

In assistant week, I tried to help Miss Fah by helping the students who did not understand or did not do what Miss Fah said. I came to the students and sometime several of them shy and curious or had initiative to ask me. There was a day, Miss Fah asked the students to make a sentence in a good grammar and told to me, if it was correct then they could finish the lesson and it made me surprise because they were so active. Also, I helped one of students who try to collect the homework of his friends and I helped Miss Fah for correcting the student’s homework then gave back to Miss Fah.

While in Mr. Bob class, he taught about weather and asked me to come forward and let students to ask anything about Indonesia. Students asked about several information about Indonesia and Bahasa Indonesia vocabularies such as bird = burung, Handsome = ganteng, and etc. They were attractive and interested with the chance. 

One day, in assistant week, Mr. Alex asked me to enter to his English class so that the students got new knowledge and feel how to face foreign teacher. At that time, I tried to give the students motivation to be more evidence in speaking English. I said “Do not be shy or think too much if you want to speak English just speak it out. Do not worry if you say wrong thing. Besides, I told them to use their mobile phone not only for game or social media but also for education, you can try to find the meaning of new word or read the news, so you will have and get more vocabulary and knowledge”. Because I was sure that the lack of the students to speak English did not only because of they were not confident but also the lack of vocabulary and knowledge. Therefore, I suggested to them to use their mobile phone effectively.

There was Open House activity in Udonpittayanukoon which followed by International Program class from M1 until M4. The agendas were drama, dance, singing, group band and story telling competition. In this picture, My friends (Jihad and Vel) and I become the adjudicator of singing competition. I was surprise that there were a lot of sudden sang very well. Their voice were gorgeous and the stage show was incredible.

The picture above was about the group band performance and we could see that there were a lot of audience saw it.

On 16^th January, it was Teacher’s day and it means the school activities were free. In Udonpittayanukoon, the teachers held party in Banchiang hotel near the school on 15^th January at 6 p.m. Udonpittayanukoon teachers not only invited us to come to the party but they lent us the traditional custom from the shop for seven of us. We took a lot of picture because there are a lot of teachers wore unique custom, we eat together with the teachers from International Program and we enjoyed the dance.

In 18^th January, it was anniversary of Udon Thani. In early morning, start from 6 a.m people already gathered along the way by wearing Udon Thani traditional custom. Orange was the color symbol of Udon Thani province. People brought flower and prayed together.

In the night of Udon Thani anniversary, there was fireworks in the Nong Prajak and the music show. The night was very excited and unforgettable.

On the Saturday of assistant week, UDRU lecturer (A-Jarn Kim) and buddies took us again to the some places for city tour. That time was special because we rode tram. Tram was the small and slowly train. There was a female guide who guide us about the place and the road we passed. The first place was Wat Phothisomphon or Phothisomphon Temple. This architecture of this temple was great especially in the inside. In the inside of the temple, several artist create the picture about the life of the Monk. Besides there was a lot of Buddha statues.

Next, the second place was Ban Chiang National Museum. This museum was an example of prehistoric culture and technology for centuries. We could see the  the artifact from several period (Bronze age and late neolithic). 

The last place was Thai-Chinese Cultural Center. In this place, we could see about the statue of Buddhist, how to pray, and also the instruments.