Day 5 - July 21st

I went to the Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University (VRU) to meet with the President of VRU. The President and the coordinator of SEA-Teacher Project from VRU greet us warmly, they asked us about our first impression living in Thailand, and what are our opinions about SEA-Teacher Project. They also gave us some advises that very useful to be implemented at school when we were doing our teaching practice. They told us to adapt with the environment well.

 

After that, we were divided into several places, we were going to our practice’s place. I was placed at The Demonstration School of Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University Under The Royal Patronage. I felt very lucky because the school is inside the university, and I can go there just by walking from the dormitory.

The Demonstration School of

Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University

Under The Royal Patronage

At school, My friends and I were introduced with Miss Thitaree, the school supervisor, we observed the learning process in the kindergarten. Najwa, Risky and I introduce ourself to the students, then we join the class and learn together with the students. When it was lunch time, Miss Thi took us (me and my friends) to the canteen and enjoy the lunch. She has told to the chef that we were Muslim and we can’t eat non halal food like pig, or pig’s oil, so we can only eat halal food.

Today we travel around the school to observe the school condition physically and introduced to all of the teacher and staff at school.

Learning Together with Kindergarten Students

Daily activities in THAILAND (July 17th – August 15th 2016)

Day 1 – July 17^th

I arrived at Don Mueang International airport at 13.35. I and some students from Indonesia named Evan, Rahmi, and Risa were picked up by four students from Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University, they were Mat, Ing, Meen, and Pond. They are our buddy that will accompany us in  Thailand. We went to the VRU’s dormitory by van. I felt lucky because Meen is a Muslim, so I can ask him the direction to pray in the dormitory and also the time table of praying. I live at the dormitory with 16 students from Indonesia and 2 students from Philippine that join SEAMEO – SEATEACHER programs. 

 VRU’s Dormitory

After praying, we went to Tesco Lotus Mart to buy simcard and data to communicate with people in Indonesia, especially parents and lecture to report about the activities that we did here.

Day 2 – July 18^th

Today Risa and I plan to walk around Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University to know more about this university. We got the information where is Faculty of Education, Family Mart (open 24 hours), Library, swimming pool, café, wifi area etc. In the afternoon, we went to the market near university (Kong Luang Market), this is my favorite place to find food for dinner, because this market is open from 3 p.m until 8 or 9 p.m. I went there to buy foods almost everyday.

Kong Luang Market (about 1 km from VRU)

Day 3 – July 19^th

Ajarn Tangmo and Ajarn Aranya visited us in dormitory and gave us some foods for breakfast, they also lend us a ricecooker and stove, so that we can cook rice or other foods.

Because today is still holiday, so we planned to go to Ayutthaya Province. We went to Ayutthaya by van, and in Ayutthaya we use Tuktuk (it looks like Bajaj in Indonesia) to going around Ayutthaya. We went to Ayutthaya at 10.10 a.m. I went to Ayutthaya with Rahmi, Evan, Risa, Olivia, Mat, Mat’s Aunt, Ing, and Ing’s Aunt. We went to several wat (temples), like Wat Chaiwattanaram, Wat Phu Khao Thong, Wat Tha Ka Rong, we also went to the elephant conservation.

 

  Wat Chaiwattanaram 

     

  Tuktuk

We did something interesting there, we pretended to be Thai people so that we could get the cheaper price of the entrance ticket. But when we were entering the temple, we have to keep silent. 555

We ate Pad Thai as the dinner, it was a traditional food from Thailand and it was very delicious.

Pad Thai

Day 4 – July 20^th

In this fourth day, I stay at the dorm because I had a stomachache. But in the afternoon I went to Big C and buy some foods and drinks, after that I went to the market to buy some dorm equipments.