During vacation in October and March, both Thai public and private schools run English camps. The idea is that kids get a chance to hang out for a week or two in an English immersion environment to improve their communication abilities. Other schools provide students with a Camp Package including Hotels, transport, activities, staff, insurance, etc. Some have partner hotels and resorts and some (like us) love their own place and don’t have any choice but stay.

We tried as much as possible to make our English camp an exciting way to help and encourage Thai children from 3-12 years old to learn and practice English. Our camp involve as much fun and interaction as possible including games, sports, songs, art and other creative activities. The camp days themselves start at about 9 am and finish around 12 noon. Supposed to be each class will only cater a maximum of 20 learners but this year we handle 30 to 40 learners/campers! There are seven of us regular foreign teachers plus we hired two more foreign teachers-my sis-in-law and my hubby to help us with our English camp. I handled 3-4 years old “campers” while hubby had the 4-5 years old.

This is what took place yesterday:

This is what I like about working with hubby, I could get my own artist to draw my visual aids!

Working with children makes me young (at heart) that I even learned their ways of doing something cute with fingers on photos like it would be cut off if you won’t!

I let the girls compete with the boys in making a robot out of shapes. Who made the best robot?

It calls for a celebration . We survived the first week of English camp. We still have a week to go and I’m looking forward to provide our students with experience in speaking listening, reading, writing and most importantly thinking for themselves in how to communicate in English. I enjoyed being a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) teacher for over 3 years already and I’m glad I made this choice. I’ve been told that I could already get a job anywhere in the world, probably a senior teacher because of my experience. I could even apply for management jobs! But NO, thank you! I am where I’ve been called, right where I am today!