iberry ice cream shop with friends

Have I ever told you that I have the most amazing Thai teacher/friend! It was my roommate's birthday at the beginning of April and she wanted to take us out to an ice cream shop. It is called iberry and had a lot of yummy ice cream as well as great photo opportunities...

I am told that it is very cool to get your picture taken in this head 

big dog/person thing

another angle...

Light fixture...wire basket with plastic/glass jars and cups in it...

Cool cupboards...

water gun door handles...maybe just for Songkran?!?!

Another crazy (and blurry) light fixture...made of plastic colorful mugs..

Tami's new head!

Kruu Meow's new head- she was trying to show us how these pictures should be taken!

Water gun light fixture...I think there were hooks so you could change out the water guns for something else

Picture frame hanging from the tree is another great place for pictures....

Roommates....I am going to miss that girl next year....

Policeman?

I hope you enjoyed your photo tour of iberry it is such a neat place.....

Last day of School before April Break

Thai schools are on their "summer break." Their school year is completed in March and starts up again in May (I believe). We, as an international school, are on the US school schedule of having June/July and part of August off, but we do get a nice 2 week "April Break" during the Thai New Year. 

The last day of school before the break the students took the time to thank and show their respect to their teachers the "Thailand way." All the elementary students have Thai twice a week where they learn the language and many cultural traditions, etc. One of these traditions is to show respect and thank their teachers, parents, etc around the Thai New Year. They do this by pouring water over their hands and saying thank you and in our Christian international school saying "God bless you."

 During the New Year most Thais go back to their families and will take the time to bless their parents/grandparents and thank them.

Third graders thanking their teachers...

you can see that they also "wai" their teacher
which is a sign of respect and we do often when we greet or thank people

The New Year is not complete without the Songkran festival...
The kids also got to play water games during their Thai classes

My roommates and our Songkran shirts...more about Songkran
in another post:)

We even got flower clips for our hair!

The kids had been reading a lot the month of March (see other posts about March Reading Month) so we celebrated (again) on the last day of school with ice cream cones!

All kids love ICE CREAM

The line...

The Library

Things that happen in the library....other then classes and checking out books....

Home School Story hour about once a month...they did this one on our character parade day...

Preschool families come in on Friday mornings....
This little girl loves sitting on my lap...(again pictures from book character day)

Changing of the bulletin board...

4th graders brought in their castles that they made to display for a couple of weeks

1st place winner

Rainy Season in September

I just got these pictures from my friend. They were taken last September when we had some really heavy rains with flooding. Some of my friends had biked to dinner and so Gina and I took them home in her truck. It is pretty dark but you can see the water and my roommate said it got deeper on the road our house is on.

It is still just hot season here, but we have had some thunderstorms with lots of wind the last few nights. This is a blessing as it keeps the air clean and cools it down for at least a short time! 

I am still standing! Just got the bike out of the back of the truck...

We got a little wet:) You can see the water by the guard  house

Ready to push the bike the rest of the way...
we were afraid the truck wouldn't make it any farther....

Wizard of Oz

The high schoolers put on The Wizard of Oz in March and I helped the stage crew team (and helped make some of the props (see another post about that...I don't know how to tag posts here).

My amazing Stage Crew...9th-12th graders...we moved a lot of stuff!

Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz right before he leaves...

The guard at the Emerald City....

Reading Celebration

For the end of March Reading Month we had a celebration where the kids found out how many minutes they read, etc. The second graders did a Reader's Theater and some of the 4th graders shared poems they had written. Then we had CUPCAKES! 

My friend Gina printed these cute Dr. Seuss pictures  and then we laminated them
and put them on the cupcakes.

The cupcakes were cute so I had to take a few pictures of them:)

The kids getting ready...

Watching a slide show of the different events that happened in March

Gina's angry Grinch face after the party...She worked  hard at cutting out
 200  Dr. Seuss characters and was ready to eat a cupcake!

Author Visit

During our March Reading Month we had an author come to visit from England. She spent time at schools in Bangkok and in Chiang Mai for about 2 weeks. She shared her books with the K-3rd grade classes (in 2 groups) and then she worked with 4th-6th (3 groups) on writing. It was great as the teachers also were there to get ideas along with the students about how to start stories, etc.

Linda Newbery reading to the students

Teaching 4th graders how to start a story...