Newbury Street, Boston

Newbury Street is a shopping street in Boston. Boston's people don't like to shopping in the mall because it's lo-so! So people are more like to walk in the street, sipping coffee in the nice coffee shop.

(we're having coffee at AU BON PAIN)

We went to shopping in the Newbury Street today. We leaved the house after lunch and took the subway.
It's really good that you can take subway to any place you want.
It's fast and cheap. Jean was the one that seem to be happy. He had the lists of what he wants and it's on Newbury Street.

Jean bought Nudie Jean. Erng, Jane and I bought some cloths from H&M.
Lin and Fern didn't buy anything. They're really good saver.




We walked around and taking pictures. Jean bought Nudie Jean. Erng, Jane and me bought some cheap cloths at H&M. Lin and Fern didn't buy anything. Lin found Fashion design learning center. She was interested so she took a photo with the shop:|

We finished shopping at iStudio. George bought AppleTV for his friend.
After that we went to Chistina and Robert House. Kids was complaining about getting tired all the way to their house but they didn't complain when they're shopping!
It's not that far. You know I'm the weakest person in the group and everybody does the same thing, eat the same food so if we can do it, they can do it too!

We had dinner at Chistina house. She cooked a lot of food by herself. It was so amazing!
She had 3 yo boy and 4 months baby girl and she was home alone!
I have no idea how could she did that. It was a lot of food that we couldn't finished. I'd need a maid for that.

Before we came, I talked to the kids that they have to interact with Chistina and Robert.
They rarely talked with Danny and Tracy at home. It's not good. They should talk with people in English not talking to each other in Thai.
It's kind of impolite if we will sit and talk to each other in Thai and they will not have a chance to talk with us.

Anyway, they did it again so we had to remind them and put them a little bit.
Chistina is a professer. She's teaching student English, specially student who come from another country.
She taught the kids how to pronouse the word and how to understand about the essent.
It's a good thing to get.

By the way, the kids tried to make we go home early because they felt tired. It's only 9 PM! They're talking and watching Thai drama movie until 12 AM. last night that make me angry but not so long.
I think we're like a family. We went home around 9.30 PM. Everybody went to bed and sleep immediately. Long day~ 

Weekend in New York

We went to New York on Saturday morning. We leaved Boston around 9 AM. and we arrived New York around 2 PM. We went to our hotel straightly because It's too late to do anything so we get rest and wake up early tomorrow to travel around New York.

We had dinner in the hotel. We ate 2 pans of pizza and we also play pool in that restaurant.

It wasn't my first time but I'm still be a newbie. After dinner, we talked about a lot of things. It's all funny thing in the room until late of night. Around 11 PM. We went to bed and tried to sleep.

We woke up really early in the next day around 6 AM. but George and Jean were in another room and they woke up late so we leaved the hotel around 9 AM. We went to Liberty State Park to see the statue of liberty.

It's very big in my eyes but it looks really small in the camera.

We took a lot of photos there and having fun with binoculars. We also saw New York city from this park. It's really nice.

We park our car in the parking. It's very expensive about $19/hour week days and $13/day for weekend.

From the parking we walked to the Freedom Tower. 

The building that they built instead World Trade Center near by the old World Trade Center area.

George tried to explain about the building but the kids get really bored. 

We found out later that they have no idea about World Trade Center and 9/11 things that made him shocked.

It's the most important history in the world so tomorrow he's gonna tell the story about 9/11 to the kids. 

The buildings are very tall and new. It's different from Boston and I like Boston better.

We took the subway to Time Square around noon. 

We walked together to see how it likes and then we had lunch together and we let the kids go take a walk by themselves for an hour.

I bought some postcard and sent it from New York to my friends, family and myself.
Time Square is really nice. A lot of light is all around. 
I forgot to tell that New York has a bad traffic like Bangkok but Bangkok is worse.
The air is still fresh even there're a lot of cars. You can open the window to get some cold air.

I wonder how much money they spend with electricity bills.  

We leaved New York around 4 o'clock and we stuck in New York for a while because of traffic. 

We arrived Boston around 8 O'clock.

So tired, so everybody is in bed now.

Bunker Hill, China Town

I woke up late today because I've worked late last night. I actually wanted more sleep.
It's a walking day and it's very windy. I felt so cold all day long. 

We walked a lot. We walked to Bunker Hill. I was soooooo tired after I walked up to the top.

After that we walked to USS Constitution. It's a place that you can see the oldest battleship in the world.

We walked around and taking pictures. There's a navy introduced us about the boat and history.

We took the bus to downtown and walked around. It's really nice city.
We had dinner in China town. Food tasted so goooooood!
I really like it. George met his old best friend there. 

We took the train and walk a little bit back home.
So tired. 

Harvard Square

We woke up late today. I felt pain all of my body because of the suitcases yesterday.
We went to Harvard Square by the bus. The bus here is a lot better than the bus in Thailand.
It's not so crowded and it's really stop at the bus stop. It's stop and low down a little bit so customer can get down easily and if you're in a wheelchair or you have a baby, there's an automatic ramp for you. It's cool!
Also you can check the time that the bus will arrive real time by checking GPS of the bus. So cool!

We walked around Harvard University, It's really beautiful and big.
There're so many people walk around. We bought some gift for friends at the COOP.
Erng was so excited about it so she bought many things. 

I found my family and I favorite chocolate but it's hard to bring it to BKK.

We walked to the river, feed gooses and take a photo. Suddenly, Linn wanted to go to the toilet.
So we walked back to Harvard Square and find a toilet for her. 

After that, we met Danny and his wife at the meeting point.
We took the bus back home together. I and George went to the market to buy vegetable to make salad.
We cooked Macaroni Cheese and Salad for dinner.

Boston

We woke up at 1 AM. to go to Chicago Midway Airport for the flight to Boston at 7.15 AM.
Goriteway came to pick us up at Dan and Sarah's house. I almost cry when we were saying good bye to them. They become my family and I feel sad to leave. YY

It takes 3 hours to the airport and 2 hours to checking bags and go to the gate.
We had to unpack and pack the suitcases again and again because of the weight and finally we made it with out losing anything.

We arrived at Boston Airport around 10.30 AM. It actually takes only 2 hours to Boston but Boston has 1 hour ahead timezone. So we arrived at that time then we carried all the bags with us to take a bus and train and train and bus. We knew it's gonna be so tired but it's better than I thought.

Danny, George's brother met us at the train station and he help us to carry all the bags to his house.
We carried it up to the 3rd floor. (Most of bags was carried by Danny, House's owner hahaha)

Danny's place is big and nice. He and his wife just bought it.
Kids love the color and style of their house. It's a lot better that they're imagine.
Because when you heard the word apartment in Thailand, you'll imagine a small little place, dirty and difficult to live but it's not this one. We're so scare to make their house dirty.

(Jean's headphone was broken, also his Mac Book screen. Bad luck)

(I got the bed this time!)

After touring around the house, we unpack our stuffs and put the bags together
We're so tired at that point but we made it! Yeahhhh
Kids took a rest. I cooked Mama Noodle for lunch because we were so hungry and it was the only thing we can find right now. I cooked a bit too much. We couldn't finish it :(

After lunch, all kids and me took a nap for a couple hours. George had a long conversation with his brother.
They've met for 10 years I guess. America is too big to often see each other.
Many people in Wisconsin have never been to Bonton. We're so lucky to be here. It's very really far!

Danny loves to cook so he cooked our dinner and I cooked rice.
We ate grill chicken with rice. Jane ate a lot of chicken.



(They have 2 old cats. It's 14 and 17 year old. Another one is really fat.)


So first day in Boston we're only eat and sleep, bring back energy.
I'm out of battery right now. I'm gonna to sleep.
Good night everyone. 

Last day in Wisconsin

I have enough sleep today Yeahh.
I woke up at 8.00 am. before all the girls.
I cooked scramble eggs, bacon, ham and cereal for breakfast.
It was a lot of food. I couldn't finish it so I leave some for George.
He complains everyday that I make him fat.
Jean also cooked scramble egg. He said he knows how to cook it from his hosfamily.

After Jean and I, Erng and Jane cooked bacon and some how they made all the house full with smoke. It took all day to let the smoke out because we don't open the windows or the doors. It's cold so they've never opened it.

After breakfast, We packed all stuff in the luggages and brought it to the first floor. We're now ready for Boston. We have a lot of food hahaha.


I cooked lunch without heating. Sarah told me that I'm better cook it by myself. I cooked rice and fish can with a lot of chilly.
I heard that Lin love spicy so I made her try US chilly. It was spicy.

In the evening, we went to Hobby Lobby. The kids was so excited and they're really like it. Especially, Scrapbooking area.They couldn't stop shopping and confuse about buying things. We took a long time in Hobby Lobby.
We came out with a lot of stuffs and spent a lot of money.

We went to Jean's hosfamily house. They just came back from Las Vegas and they wanted to say good-bye Jean. They also had a little bit tear. They gave us the gifts from Las Vegas.
After that we went to the library, update our blogs and went to the Game shop near by.

George was playing game when we arrived so we waited him for 5 minutes and he lose!
We ran back home because we're really hungry. We made pizza and ate it fast.
After that we told the kids to be relax because we're gonna have a longggg day tomorrow but it's hard for them to calm down. They're quiet about 1 hour before we leave.
They're gonna be so tired then.

I'm kind of sad that I have to leave Wisconsin.
I love to stay here with Sarah and Dan. They're fun and they're so good to me. I know that they're also really like me too hahahaha.

And I'm gonna be more sad when we leave Boston :(

Cranky Day

Today is a long day for me. I slept very late last night about 1.30 am. George and I was talking with P'Cherry at the center and because our time different and Cherry went to work late so we had to sleep late :(
And sadly that I have to wake up early :( I work up around 7 am. It is hard for me to sleep less.
I was really up set and not in the mood to work at all.

We went to Valders kidergarten to observed the class so we can adjust to our class in Thailand.
Our class and American Class is exactly the same. We teach the same way as they do.
Teachers assign the proper work for each students. The class is a small class size. It's about 20 kids in a room.
There's many stations in the classroom. First 15 minutes, Teacher told the kids to do things differently. 5 kids studied phonics with the teacher, 5 kids read a book separately and  4 kids may drawing things they like, 1 boy listening the story with CD player and book by himself.

Every kids has things to do and then they changed the stations or get together in the middle.
Kids missed difference skills so they can't just study same things. Some might need to practice something else so they can catch up with other kids. Kids can't study the way an adult does. They learn by playing. 

So It's a great thing that we took a video of their class so we can show to the parents who have a hard time of understanding what we do to see and hope that they will understand the way we teach. 

There's a room that the kids can play role to be a doctor and it's so cute when the kids say and do the exactly what they see from the hospital. 

Teacher read the story and asked the kids to compare 2 stories so it there's any kids have a problem, teacher would know it and they will fix it by kids personal assignment. That's cool! 

You will see the kids wrote almost every word wrong but they can write! 

Thai kids wouldn't be able to write the sentence by themselves because Thai education doesn't teach the kids to know the sound of the letters and teach them how to mix it together. I saw some Thai kids at kindergarten levels can wrote but only some words like.. Father, Mother etc.. to make parent happy but they had no idea why that words read like that, write like that. And if you told them to write the different words, sentence. They couldn't do it. They don't really understand what they're doing but they're memorize.

Here, kids don't have to know the right word by this time but they're be able to write the word by the sound that they talk everyday.  If you look at the picture, you will see that they wrote from understanding. That's cool! 

I was so tired and sleepy. We went back home to had lunch and then came back to school again to observe their reading class. Every classrooms have a reading corner and they have reading hours that kids will read or try to read both by themselves and couple then they will compare the story together. That's cool!

After we finished all of work, we came home had some snack and I took a nap for 2 hours.
It made me feel better. I was so cranky when I was sleepy and George knows that I really need a nap.

I cook rice soup with bread for dinner. I put a lot of garlic because I like it but some kids don't like it so it's their problem hahahaha.

Tomorrow, we have a meeting with the school again. They will give us the information as much as they can give.

I start to pack my stuffs. Tomorrow night we will fly to Boston. I showed the kids my scrapbooking and explained them about Hobby Lobby. They love it! So tomorrow we will take them to Hobby Lobby my favorite place. It's awesome. There're everything about hobby. I wish Thailand would has a place like that.

Sarah's Birthday

I woke up early today and I was really cranky in the morning.
Erng didn't sleep all night (I heard she told Jane and Baifern when they woke up)and when Baifern moved, they started talking so loud at 5 am.!
I was patient for a while but since they went outside and met with Jean. They're really really loud!
That was the time I became evil. I don't like to wake up at the time that I'm not supposed to.
It's not a good idea to chatting, laughing in bedroom or in front of bedroom where everybody was sleeping.

I told them to go downstair and talk quietly. 

7.30 am. We went to the church together. I was so sleepy and almost fall asleep in the church.

It was a hard morning for me. On the way home, we dropped by at Piggy Wiggy to bought cookie cake for Sarah. Today is her birthday. We already had a present. I and George bought it from Walmart 2 days ago.

I stayed home all day. Kids cooked lunch by themselves and they walked around and took Pepper to take a walk. They have fun together. Around 5.30 pm, George called us to have dinner.
We had pizza and soda. I was so full. 

Dan and Sarah went to eat Lobster for special dinner. Sadly they didn't invite me to join their dinner hahaha.
When they came back, we brought the cake and sing Happy Birthday song to Sarah.
Cookie cake was so sweet! Sarah unpacked the present. It is rice-cooker.
I'll teach her how to use it tomorrow :)



Dan and Sarah like rice and soup. Today they found that Joke-Ka-Nor is yummy.
(probably tastier than my rice soup)

Kids are back!

I stayed home all day waiting for the kids. Baifern was the first one and then Jane, Jean. 

Lin will be back tomorrow. They talked a lot. They couldn't stop talking!
I cook the dinner today. It's rice with omelet and vegetable fried. I don't have much chance to eat vegetable here. American don't eat it but they have it. They normally have beef, bread, cheese and potato.

After dinner, George and I sat at the dining table and showed Dan and Sarah about Thailand.
Mostly was the pictures from the flood hahaha and weird animals.

Jean arrived home after dinner.He came with Joey and his sister.

The girls was sooooo excited to meet Joey. One of them fell from the stair because she was too hurry.

It was so funny. George told Joey to say "Pom Rak Khun" and he said it to the girls.
That made a lot of noise. 

We went to bed early because we're gonna go to the church tomorrow. 

Ahh so lazy. I don't want to go :(

Sleeping Friday

I woke up late. I ate breakfast around 10 am. It's bacon, egg and cereal.
I think we need more cereal and pizza for the kids this weekend.

I slept all day. It's such a lazy day. Mr.Carroll interrupt my afternoon nap.
He need somebody to hold the string for him in the kitchen so I did it.
SO TIRED hahahahha.

I ate a little snack when Erng came home from school and watching series movie on TV with George.
He wanted to do something. We had pork shop, spinach , rice and pudding for dinner. I think I'm too full right now. I feel uncomfortable.

Hyper George was bored so we went to Manitowoc to play Magic Card. He loves to play card or watching people play card when nobody plays with him hahahha.

I'm waiting for him right now. We're gonna go to Walmart after this to buy some food, cereal and Erng wants some special crayon color. There're so many specialstationery which you can't find it in Thailand and they're cheap! I hope we would have some place like that in Thailand.

I'll save a lot of money from now to buy it and sell it in Thailand next time I come here hahahaha. They're cool stuffs.

Tomorrow, some kids will come back to our home. See you guys! 

Kitchen Remodeling

Today, Dan's brother came to the house to help Dan about the kitchen that they've been working on it for a while but it hasn't done yet. So I was their  supervisor, making sure that they're working hahahahhaha.

We had lunch together in Manitowoc. It's Dan and Sarah favorite place. I ate fish lake. They recommended me.
It's good but I more like sea fish. Dan lets me try his Malt or something. It's sweet.
We talked about so many things. And the last, I and George ate Sundays together. They also recommended me.

We arrived home around 1pm. I was so sleepy but I still have to supervise Dan and Terry. Hahahaha

I'm kidding! We went to Erng's school to take a video and photos. I didn't want to go because It was rain and cold. But we have to do it today or tomorrow so it could be today. 

George, Erng and I came home together. I took a nap. George watched Youtube and Erng read a story on website. Sarah let me cook omelet  and we ate it for dinner. I feel like I want to eat something more but I don't know what is it. May be soda or something sweet etc. 

Tomorrow is gonna be the last day in school for all kids. They will come back here on Saturday and Sunday. We're going to Boston on Tuesday night. Hmmmm I don't wanna gooooo. I want to stayyy. 

Tired :S

I woke up at 7.30 o'clock this morning. It's quite early, isn't it?
I slept late last night try to talk with P'Jim at the center in Thailand and I have to wait until 10 pm.
I talked with P'Jim on Skype and she seems to be understand what is her work.
I was the one who worry that she's gonna be nervous about calling people because I don't like to do it at all :P

George came back from Manitowoc with his mom around 11.00 am.
We have so many things to deal with so he told me to get dress and we'll go out the the schools.

We went to Lin's school first. It's great that the schools here have high-security. Nobody can just walk in and mess around in the school. You have to get in to the school by the main office.
But since you get in to the school, everything is not so hard and complicate like the school in Thailand.
If you want to meet the principle ? Sure,here you go! You can meet them right after they're free and they're gonna take care of you. He or She will walk you to the room that you want to see, checking and talking with you whatever you want. They can decide what you ask for immediately.

Difference from the schools in Thailand, where you hardly talk with the principle or they may not be there to talk or decide anything for you. You may have to come back again and again or you have to send the letter then you can come in but it may takes time because the principle has so many to do so it probably takes 3 days - 1 week just to read your letter and perhaps you will allow to meet the principle. Awwww 

Alright, come back to Lin's school, we went to Lin's classroom. She was sitting with her friends.
I took the video of her and her class and follow her around to the canteen. She brought her lunch from home. She ate Thaifood everyday I guess.

After Lin, we were so hungry so we ate lunch at Golden China Buffet in New Holstein. People love this place and then we went to Baifern's school. It's her 3rd day. She might still be excited. 

The principle called her out of her class but we prefer to get in to her class and take a VDO and pictures.

He didn't have any problem with that. So we came in and watching Baifern studied.

She seems to be fine. We came back to pick Erng up from school. She was so excited about school tornado training. They made the kids prepare and train in case there's a tornodo comes around which is very new for Thai kid. We don't have tornodo in ThWe ate pizza for snack and we walked to Piggy Wiggy because Erng wanted to buy shampoo. 

We had fish and rice for dinner. Erng ate 2 pieces of fish! I just ate one :S 

 I think I'm not in the mood to write today because there're a lot of works and things to think about. 

END!