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Yeah Holidays! Wait…no!
February 18th: Last school day of the term. Finally holidays. Yeah. Let’s gooooo…oh no. Back to school! Why? Because the college said so. When? One week before the holidays. Besides the usual school work we’ve also been waiting for a ‘College Evaluation Committee’ for the past few weeks. Since the ladies and gentlemen from the [...]
Thailand: Land of Smile, Land of Copies – Lack of thinking!
‘Sascha, you know what is missing here? The ability to think’ That quote of one of my colleagues over here at Udon Thani Vocational College says it all and I couldn’t agree more. During a conversation we had last week we tried to figure out why Thai people would rather spend their time searching for [...]
Pizza baking with Thai students
As time goes by! The next semester at Udon Thani Vocational College comes to an end and since last term’s ‘cooking adventure’ was such a success I decided to invite my students again to our big college kitchen and cook ‘European food’ with them. Last term we focused on German food (Schnitzel and potato salad), [...]
ESL Teaching in Thailand
Over the past few weeks I received a lot of mails asking what it takes to teach English as a second language (ESL) here in Thailand. So here’s a short post covering the most important facts and qualifications you need to know. Personal Qualifications: Don’t take this to easy! You really need to be able [...]
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Open Letter To The Udon Thani Vocation College & Vocational Education Commission
Since my time in Udon Thani slowly comes to an end it is time for a final recap. I already told you more than once that I love teaching and most of my students and I probably will say it again in a final post, however this post is about my college and the education [...]
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English with Fun(k) vs. English the Wright way – Meeting Chris Wright (Chris Delivery / Unseen)
A few days ago I had the chance to meet a television superstar here in Thailand. Christopher Wright is an English teacher who produced several successful DVDs and books, has his on TV shows (Chris Delivery) and an incredibly funny and successful stand-up comedy program (Chris Unseen). I was quite surprised and lucky that he [...]
Small girl, big voice: Interview with Nutwadee Niroka
During my life in Thailand I meet / met a lot of interesting and fascinating people. This is their place to tell the world what they think about all different kinds of subjects. You will find interviews with students, colleagues, workers, farangs and more random citizens, tourists or friends. Today it is one of our [...]
The Student-Farang Dilemma
This is a short post about something that’s kinda bothering me right now. It’s regarding my work as a teacher so if you’re more into the travel stuff of my blog, feel free to skip this entry. I already wrote about the fact that many students here at the college, when getting older, tend to [...]
How Thailand doesn’t improve it’s English education at all
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a nice party and a lot of fun celebrating into our possibly last year on earth. Like every year, the first day of January always brings a lot of new things with it. So does it this time. Besides many things that, luckily, do not affect [...]
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North-Eastern Thailand Vocational College English Speech Competition – as Judge
During this years North-Eastern Thailand Vocational College Championships I was selected to be one of three judges sitting in the committee of the English speech competition. Besides being the by far youngest judge, I also was the only non-native speaker there. Turned out that the two old English guys and I did have total different [...]
