What a week! I changed schools, and moved in the space of
about 3 days. Thank god for friends and family. I feel bad because I probably did
the least amount of work during it. I pretty much just went on an interview,
and then did my last 2 days at Assumption. My girls had already all taken their
final exam for summer school, so we didn’t actually do a damn thing.
During that time, Roong, Palmiez, and Puk were making runs
in their cars to get me moved. I think the whole thing only took 3 trips. My
new apartment is on the 4th floor, with no elevator. Roong hired
some of the locals to get the stuff up there, so that part wasn’t too bad, and
Puk got to skip a day of school, so I think she will survive.
My X landlord was being her normal bitchy self, and made us
pay a full months rent because we didn’t give her a full months notice. Please
remember that she already has 2 months deposit that we were never going to see
again anyway, so don’t feel bad for her. We put one of those outer door knob
locks on the apartment door, so she can’t rent the room out from under us. Oh yeah,
she’d do it. I’m sure she was already counting the money. We gave the key to a
friend so that he can go take a look every once in a while to see if she cut
the lock or anything. God, I hope she does. Haaaa!
Anyway, the new job is at a school about 30 minutes north of
BKK, just south of Ayuthaya. That's a shot of the old palace above this. It’s kind of a rural area, but kind of not. There
is actually a lot here, it’s just not name brand. The school looks nice, and we
noticed that a few of the rooms in the English language section had air
conditioning. I hope I can teach in one of them (please please please!).
My new man cave is about the same size as my old one. A bit
dingy, but OK. The building is smack dab in the middle of the local market, so
anything you need is right outside the front door. That is, after you go down 4
flights of stairs, of course. I am sure that is going to improve my memory
dramatically. We were missing a few things here because the apartment is only
partially furnished, so now I have a new refer, TV, and even a washing machine.
All are tiny, but efficient. The landlord’s name is Yu, and she and Roong seem
to get along quite well.
The most excitement I had during all of this was riding my
motorcycle here from the old place. It took about 5 hours. The girls can take
the tollway, so they can do it in under an hour in their cars. About 45 minutes
of that was me getting lost, but the rest was due to construction and holiday
traffic. The old girl was a champ though, no problems what so ever. Well, other
than a severe sun burning on both of my forearms. That’s OK though, because it’s
probably the longest adventure I will ever get to take on the bike. My ass was
killing me by the end of it. I guess it’s time for a car (sniff). I’ll probably
give the motorcycle to Pukky, just to scare the shit out of her mother. :D
My new boss called today at about 3pm, and said..”Oh yeah,
the school wants you to come and do a demo class for them tomorrow. Nothing
fancy, just enough so that they know you can teach.” WTF? I already fooled you, how many times do
I need to do this? I will make sure he knows that I had to miss the premier of
Iron Man III tonight because I have to get up early for this. (Sorry Palm, we
will go see it soon, I promise!)
So that’s what’s been going on lately. More later, once I
have had the time to look around this place a bit….
