If you are a vegan then you have lot better budget control as far food is concerned. You can get bottled water for 10 baht. And you can get noodles and rice for say 30 baht respectively. More cost if you choose to eat at more hygienic places. Some street food places are worth going for but often the...

You may need to mention your country before you can get country specific process. For example, some countries have the eVisa process. So that one can apply 1 day before arriving into the Thailand soil. So if your country allows such process with treaty with thailand then you may want to take a look ...

I think the first step is to get in touch with authorities who can help you. And then get this sorted in front of them. This way you can set the direction for not getting bullied in future. Most of the bullies have some sort of support which they exploit. And you have to cut down their sources for t...

I think food and transport is where most of the people have culture shock. Rest of the other things are easy to adjust. Once you adjust with the people around, you have to start to adapt to the local food. You don't have to push things though. But at home, you can try your own recipes in that case. ...

Peer pressure is something almost everybody goes through these days. Some have the pressure of performing better than another teacher. Also some are more concerned about how they are delivering the value. So I guess that's common pressure and not something we always have to control. Instead I think ...

I think often teachers are held at higher moral standard in any Asian culture. So you may have to watch out what you say and do be it day or night. In case of casual bar and club life won't be an issue. But you may have to usually do that in another city instead of the same city. This way you can ma...

Wow--this forum really made me think about retiring as an educator in Thailand. You definitely can't live this well on a teacher's salary, not usually anyway, the states. I plan on teaching into my seventies, if I can, so even after "retirement", I would hope to still be finding teaching ...

I think it's not about whom to blame. Think of it through psychological aspect. You have to find out the root cause of this behavior. Many times we just want to get rid of the problem on it's face value. But we don't pay attention to what caused the problem at first place. And that's how I think it'...

Most talkative students tend to keep on talking even if there is an activity. They can manage better as a leaders if they are kept in activity. So as a teacher one can look at them as a potential talent instead of getting annoyed. The excitement and things they want to do with being talkative is so...

I think most of the talkative students are extroverts. And keeping them busy in some sort of activity is a good thing. You can form some sort of class session tasks and get them engaged into it. It works for English subject for other subjects you may have to be more creative for how to keep them eng...