Day 7 1/7/14 Presenting

This morning Ryan and I enjoyed fresh mangoes and orange juice for breakfast. The mangoes were bought at the night market and were absolutely delicious; by far the best mangoes I've ever eaten. After breakfast we made our ten minute trek to class.The first two hours of class were spent listening to everyone's presentation. Ryan went first. He led the game two truths and a lie, as well as a discussion about everyone's first impressions of Thailand. Nick went second presenting on his passion for scuba diving and his experiences. I went third, teaching the group two games; one of them a drawing game, and the other a word game. Jeff's presentation was last, which was surprisingly informational about the country of South Korea. He told us that he taught English in Korea for five years; this bit of information about him took all of us by surprise. I would hate to be his student. By the time everyone finished their presentations it was lunch time. Nick, Ryan, and I left class and got lunch at a nearby restaurant. I ordered green curry and a kiwi smoothie; which was delicious. After lunch we went back to class where we leisurely sat around and talked while we waited for Moz to enter the room. Most of that downtime was spent listening to Jeff complain about the water heater in his apartment. When he talks he stutters and often makes big gestures with his hands. He will cock is head back and forth and speak really loud. He comes across as the type of person that always has something to complain about.When Moz returned to class he  gave us all a practice grammar quiz to see how much we knew about the English language. The test was surprisingly challenging; testing our knowledge on specific grammar terms. We went over the quiz as a group, and discussed the importance of knowing grammar for teaching ESL After class Ryan and I walked to the sporting good store in the mall to buy a basketball.The mall didn't annoy me as much this time around,;more stores seemed to be open and there were more people shopping. We bought our basketball for $7 usd; afterwards we went to a supermarket at the bottom of the mall. The supermarket was about the size of safeway and had a pretty good variety of food; mostly Thai food with some imported western goods. We bought yogurt, granola, and bananas to give ourselves a break from the chicken and rice breakfast we've been eating for the past week. After shopping we headed back to our apartment where we stayed for the rest of the night keeping it low key. We ate yogurt and granola for dinner and streamed the last few episodes of breaking bad before calling it a night.