Week 3

January 27, 2019 (Sunday)

This was another excursion experience. Teacher Da and Teacher Phet invited us to go to Khao Kho. It was way too far in Phitsanulok so we had to wake early and prepare ourselves. I just waited in Eric and Amin’s dorm. At 5:00 in the morning, teacher Lek sent us to Teacher Phet’s house. Teacher Phet’s husband was the one who drove the car for us. We arrive to Khao Kho at around 7:30 am and had our lunch there. We ordered coffee and noodles for our breakfast then, we were given a chance to roam around and take some photos. The strawberry vendor allowed us to gather strawberries. Then, we bought the strawberries that we gathered. We also went to the old camp in Petchabun and took some photos there.

After that, Teacher Phet and Teacher Da treated us lunch. We ate a chicken meal and sipped a milktea. The, we went to a dinosaur park and sunflower house. We have seen so many beautiful places in this day and we really enjoyed all of the activities that we had done.

January 28, 2019 (Monday)

Today was just an ordinary day. I spent my time inside the office and prepare for my topics. I made a lesson plan for teaching and also thought of some activities that I would do for my students. Then, after planning, I communicated my lesson plan with Teacher Adel since she was my mentor. She approved it and gave me some advice to teach the students.

January 29, 2019 (Tuesday)

In the Hoikong Activity, the Prathom students presented their work in Electricity. I was so glad that they were able to present and speak in English during the presentation.

In the afternoon, I thought I would be teaching Mattayom 3 students. But, they were having their review for ONET so I wasn’t allowed to interrupt. So, I just observed their class while they were having their review.

After that, I went to Matthayom 2 class. I was introduced by Teacher Adel and the students welcomed me. I provided a pre- test about subject- verb agreement rules. I gave15 minutes for the students to answer and then, we discussed the rules that applied to each of the sentences in the pre- test. I also let the students play a 4 pics 1 word game that I prepared for them. Then, I grouped them to write sentences following the rules that I gave them.

January 30, 2019 (Wednesday)

January 31, 2019 (Thursday)

Today was the scheduled date for us to meet the president of Pibulsongram Rajabhat University. Dr. Buncha picked us early in the morning. We went to PSRU main campus and went straight to the office of the president. She welcomed us and asked us about our experiences. She also asked about the learning that we got in Teeratada as well as our activities in Thailand. After our meeting with the president, she gave us some tokens and took some photos together.

After that, Dr. Buncha sent us to the Public Health class and we met Ma’am King there. It was a huge class. Ma’am King asked us to introduce ourselves. Then, the class was divided into four for the activity. The SEA Teacher fellows were then separated and assigned to different groups. The group that was assigned to me was so kind and accommodating. However, it was so difficult to communicate with them because I am not good in speaking Thai and they don’t use English often. So, we just ended writing our thoughts to understand each other.

They asked me about the environment in the Philippines and we also talked about pollution. The, after that, I taught them some Filipino words and Phrases and they taught me Thai as well. So I had a lot of learning in this class.

After the activity, we took some photos together and ended up sharing Facebook accounts. Then, we had the chance to go around the university via Electronic car. In my observation, the school was so big and really conducive for learning because they have a lot of resources and excellent facilities.

One of my favourite places in PSRU is their E- Library. Their library really looked like a mall for me because it was so big and had everything. When we enter the E- library, there was a need to have an ID to be scanned. We got the ID for guests. There was also an escalator inside. When we reached the second floor, I was shocked that there was a karaoke and cinema inside. There were also computer rooms. I was so excited walking around the library since it was my first time to see a library like that. There were so many books and many areas for doing group works.

After going to the library, we went to the school cafeteria. Ma’am King treated us lunch. The cafeteria looked like a food park and we had so many options of foods. We enjoyed the lunch that we ordered. After that, Dr. Buncha picked us up to go to the Faculty of Education.

We experienced to be a student in the Education department. We were sent to study-for-the-day with the English major students. We met so many students and had a chance to study with Teacher Forte. The topic for this day was context clues. To be part of the activities, we were invited to the line group of the students. In the group, teacher Forte sent the link of the activities to be done. We were all connected to the WIFI so we didn’t have any problem in the activity. After the three hours of studying with the English major students, we took some photos and said goodbye to our classmates. Before leaving, we had a small talk with Teacher Forte then, went back to Dr. Buncha.

After all of the activities, the day concluded by going back to Teeratada.

February 1, 2019 (Friday)

I spent my time inside the office and prepare for my topics. I made a lesson plan for teaching and also thought of some activities that I would do for my students. Then, after planning, I communicated my lesson plan with Teacher Adel since she was my mentor. Then, in the evening, Teacher Lek invited me to go with other Thai teachers to eat MOOKATA (Grilled Pork).

February 2, 2019 (Saturday)

Today was quite saddening because our SEA Teacher Fellows from Indonesia left already. I didn’t have the chance to say goodbye to them personally because they left Teeratada early in the morning. So, I just messaged the two of them.

Though I was too sad, I still have to prepare for the evaluation day. I made my instructional materials in the student dorm. I spent the whole day doing my preparations and making sure that everything that I need was ready.

In the evening, Teacher Jonathan toured us in Phitsanulok. We went to a temple then to the mall and ate dinner. We had Mookata for dinner and we really enjoyed it.