A guest speaker at an orientation for the Thai students participating the cultural exchange in Soleftea, Sweden

Saturday 6 March 2010

It was such a great honor to be invited to help prepare and teach English and share my student exchange experience as an AFS exchange student (Year 1997 in New Zealand) with the very lucky 16 high schoolers from varous high schools in the Bangkok area. This project was initiated by the Foreign Affairs, Department of Education Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. The selected students are going to go visit their brother-sister schools in Sweden and Norway. In the frist group, students are leaving for Soleftea, Sweden March 15 and returning March 29, 2010. In the second group, students are going to Norway. One of the main purposes of this program is for the students to promote and exchange Thai culture and Swedish culture and become exposed to different cultures and peoples in other countries. The students are mostly good at traditional Thai dance and music and who are outgoing with great personality and of course English ability. With a little of my help and guidance, I hope they will be able to survive and have a great time there with the host families and things that they will be doing as once I had and did! Great memories indeed :-)