So ! - Life is sweet - I have had a hectic week and a half
I have managed to post up an advert for The Surat Thani Genki English Seminar - sadly no response as yet but it is early days yet.
I also manage to get ink for my printer and print out a fair proportion of the Flash cards and work sheets for Genki too.
Normally this would be a non event really - Yes there is lots of it but printing is fairly straight forward... unless your in Thailand.
The events go something like this:
1) Buy Genki English and download.
2) Realise there is loads of material to print out.
3) Try and "sell" the whole Genki Product and concept to Thai work colleagues (in an attempt to get them on board with helping get the stuff printed - (well if not help stop them from being obstructive).
4) Fail miserably at 3) but due to this weird Thai cultural thing that stops Thais from saying what they think or feel if they decide you might find it offensive it is going to offend be completely oblivious to the fact that you have actually upset embarrased and confronted them by making them look bad by not having a work ethic.
5) Get the sack due to 4.
6) Be reinstated but working for another business within the business group ( the Thai way of asking you to move departments).
7) Recover from points 4 to 6 whilst being told by main support that they really dont want you in Thailand anymore. (took ten days out and went sailing. - see post:
8)Return to work and present Genki to school director at small village school.
9) Have employer realise what you have been trying to say for the previous 3 months.
10)Try to look into number of local schools and agencies in preparation to try and set up own agency / Language school.
11) Find printer to print materials ( As scheme now has owner/employers endorsement).
12) Try printer - which is blocked and needs jets cleaning.
13) Get printer working - briefly.
14) Discover lack of Black ink.
15) Spend two days chasing round wrong Thai trying to work out how to acquire new supply of ink only to be obstructed because they couldn't be bothered to explain simple things like where they buy ink from (reality being they don't have money to buy ink so don't want to be embarrassed by not wanting to ask for money).
16) Find right person to get 500 Baht from for ink - who then goes and asks same the self same person in 15 where to get ink from and is told.
17) Spent 2 days trying to get printer to work with out much success until realising tanks need to be vented to avoid vaccuum. (pull out the stopper holders).
18) Start printing!!!!
19) Come back in after finishing work one evening to waste hours trying to work out why a printer wont work when the reason is that some idiot has decided to play a prank and un plug the printers USB data cable on the inside. Go home.
20) Spend another day printing.
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In the mean time :
I have been out and test ridden a Ducati - :D - Ridden Chris's SR 400, and come up with a plan to get a decent bike.
I have played with an iguana
