Coming Home

I am now waiting to board the first part of my 3 plane trip home.  I am flying to Hong Kong where I will be boarding an Air Canada flight to Vancouver.  That flight is to be 11.5 hrs long and I go back in time.  I will be making a connection to Winnipeg from there and hopefully home by 11:30 pm.

This has been an amazing learning adventure.  Aside from the beauty of the country itself, the culture is incredible.  Thailand is a diverse place that has many different cultures and people.  From Burma to the Chinese, Thai people are very proud of their culture, their religion and definitely their King. I don’t know of any other country that will stop at 8am or 6pm to listen to their anthem being played on loud speakers.

This was the first time leaving North America to travel and I understand why some people have a travel bug.  What is wonderful about this type of trip was that we were immersed in the culture and the learning that we did.  Meeting venders in the night market of Chaing Mai, to the hill people, to the children in the schools; every day was a new lesson.  Our guide, Mr. Lewis, was full of information and stories that added to the adventure and opened up the history and importance of Thailand.  For me, it was a new kind of travel.

 

I fully believe that this kind of opportunity needs to be opened to more teachers.  You can’t learn what I learned in a classroom or by media but once you have experienced this, you can definitely open your students to a side of the world that many may never see.  You can “Prepare the students for the World” because you have experienced the world.

Over the next couple of days, I hope to add more pages but these will be of just the sites that I witnessed as well as things I did.  This site will be opened for a while so that there is a reference to those who wish to check back.