After a lot of Preparation.....

Throughout the past couple of months, both Clem and myself have been tutoring a number of students for an English competition. The first stage was just the schools in Si Saket. Then there is one for all of the winners in Issan and then it steps up to Chaing Rai for the final in all of Thailand. There are four different English sections. Story Telling, a Demonstration, Public Speaking and Crossword (known to us Europeans as scrabble). We had to create what was being said for each of the students and practise it with them so they could learn it off by heart and have the correct pronunciation.

When competition day came along, it was held in SISAT Technic school so all lessons were off for us. First of all, Clem and I had to judge one of the competitions. It was not a pleasant experience as we had to judge the Public Speech which one of our students was in. What made it worse was that she forgot what to say so we had to mark her down.

Next was the Demonstration and thankfully we could just watch as the college had got other people in to be the judges. Out of all the demonstrations, I honestly believe that ours deserved to win as she was the only one to remember it all she said it all confidently and properly. Thankfully we did win! Our Demonstration is going to the next stage.
Straight after the Demonstrations came the Story Telling. Unfortunately, the main student never really came to us for tutoring so he didn't win as he didn't practise enough and the other student was too nervous and forgot parts of the story. Some of the other schools had really good performances with students walking round the floor acting out the characters and putting on really good voices so they deserved to win.

The next stage is at Yassaton (I'm not sure if it is spelt right) with the winners from all around Issan. We will be joined with all the other winners around Issan. Hopefully we will do well as she is so good. Also, we managed to come first and second at crossword (scrabble), so that's another thing which we go to Yassaton with :)
The competition is in a few days so soon you will be hearing of the results. Wish us luck.