1 Mar, 2006

Well, here I am, unemployed in Bangkok. My job finished yesterday, 28th Feb, and now I'm at Rob's school taking advantage of their fast Internet connection! I've just uploaded ALL the rest of our photos onto snapfish.com - so I'll send you all a link to the website so you can see them all.

My last day at work was a bit of a damp squib anyway - due to this horrible ear infection i've got. Really, really painful! The doctor tried to scrape and blast away at the blockage, but told me that the Caucasian skull has much narrower ear canals, and they go much deeper, than in the Asian skull, so that makes it much harder to deal with ear wax. So i now have antibiotics and anti-inflammatories for 5 days, and it feels like I've got a migraine and am almost deaf in my right ear. Not fun!

I do have a couple of weeks' work in a couple of weeks' time, teaching Primary 5 students from Rob's school, which should be fun and very different from my secondary-school students. I have lots of things planned for them to do, including (I hope) a penpal thing with my brother David's class in England. Any teachers out there, I'm open to any game/song ideas you might have!

It's getting even hotter, here in the world's 2nd most polluted city after Mexico City. Climate change.......the thing is, everyone here is addicted to air-conditioning, in buildings and cars, which uses a lot of electricity and/or car fuel. And the hotter it gets, the more cooling-down everyone wants, thereby using more and more energy and contributing more and more to global warming. Bit of a vicious circle.

A fantastic film we saw recently is "Walk the Line", the story of the late Johnny Cash. Go and see it if you can - it's brilliant!