Do you need my assistance?

My friend Joe shared with me one of the funniest stories I have heard lately, which I will kindly pass on to you, dear readers.
Joe's friend, whose name I don't know, apparently found the local law enforcement to be a bit lackluster. So he put on a spiderman costume, walked down the local police station, and asked the cops if they needed his assistance. I would have paid a lot of money to have seen that first hand.

Sorry, I've been awol for a while. Life's been busy over here. Last week all my kids had exams. This means I had to make reviews to prepare them and I had to grade them. Here's the deal: over here, kids only have to make a fifty to pass. Being American, hailing from a country with a wonderful education system, you would think that would be easy. But no. I don't write the tests, and the tests have a tendency not to be like the material I have taught them.

So it's Xmas Eve. I've been playing "So This is Christmas" a lot because it seems rather appropiate to me. We did have our Kasintorn Academy Christmas party. Yours truly was found playing Xmas songs on the guitar in a corner. They were playing house music in the other corner, which is where everyone else was. They love to play music like that at school. It's weird. Parents walking around, little girls in ridiculously short santa skirts, techno music, a whole pig on the table. Let's talk about that. There was just a big pig on the table and this guys was butchering it right there. It was already cooked, but it still had a nose and mouth and teeth and it was a little strange. I'll put up a pic when I get them back from my friend.

I haven't much to report really. It's just been a lot of school related happenings. For New Year's I'm headed to the beach at Koh Chang for four days. It will be excellent. I get no holidays for Xmas. I teach all of next week. Enjoy your vacation everyone. Enjoy Xmas. I wish I was there.

Lastly, everyone needs to check out a band called Wolf Parade.

Jordan