Tiny little creatures

Two weeks at the camp near Hat Yai have past. The little village is called Khong-hai-khung which means the river of the turtle. Though I haven't seen any turtles here. But I've seen lots of other tiny little creatures. A small summery of the amimals I've seen here are snakes, frogs, rats, ghekko's, lizzards, huge spiders, and a variety of insects like many musquitos, ants, stingbees, cocroaches, grasshoppers, stingflies, wasps and many, many more.
The thing is that all these animals seen to like me. I've already been bitten by a wasp and I've also had a cocroach and a huge grasshopper on me :(
And then there are the dogs of which we have three at the camp. Usually I like dogs a lot, but these ones are full of fleas and tics, so they scratch themselves constantly and I'm sure you can imagine what they look like. And they like to follow us everywhere we go. They are not like the domestic dogs in Europe, since they don't get a lot of food & water and are always outside. So sometimes they misbehave, and steal food from the kitchen or trashbin. I do feel sorry for the dogs, but in the 'jungle' we live in there is not much we can do for them :(

But enough about the animals, there are much nicer tiny little creatures. The childeren! We teach English to childeren in primary school, from age 6 to 12. The school is about 3 km away from our camp. They look really cute and esspecially in their schooluniforms. Ofcourse they sometimes behave like angels and sometimes like demons like every child, but overall they are just adorable. The children also like us as well and are constantly greeting us in English and wanting to play games. Even the Thai teachers try to speak English. The youngest children we learn mostly simple words and focus on speaking, while with the older children we practice also writing and reading. That is quite difficult for the children, since they are not used to the Roman script. But it's great to see them progressing! :)
At our school much more is happening then only teaching. Last friday the 6-year-olds needed to get vaccinations. The Thai way of doing that is in the open air with just a table and a chair and everybody watching. We tried to comfort the children by singing songs and playing little games. But one girl needed a second vaccination and was terrified; screaming and crying. So I was kindly 'asked' in Thai/English/signlanguage to take her on my lap and hold her tight so she wouldn't move too much. Talking about integrating really fast... Luckely after five minutes she was already smiling again :)
This week we have three sportsdays at school(a volleyball tournament with about 8 participating schools), so no classes until thursday and just cheering our teams! That's school in Thailand; expect the unexpected and have lots of fun :D