MicahJohn

Before today I had a motorcycle helmet that I liked a lot. It was comfortable (which is impressive given the size of my head relative to the average Thai head). It looked good.

I’m pretty good about locking it up with my bike’s little helmet lock. Today was no exception. Yet when I was preparing to come home this evening I noticed my helmet was missing. My first thought was that somehow this morning I had left my helmet at home. I then noticed that the clip on the helmet strap that fits into the helmet lock was still locked in place. Someone cut my helmet off my bike!

Bummer!

Some of my students entered a competition among several English Program schools. I was their adviser. It was hard for me to limit myself to the role of adviser. I often wanted to promote myself to project leader/dictator.

Holding myself back to the adviser role I believe allowed my students to learn more. It did mean my students did not integrate the components of their assembly as much as I would have liked, though they did succeed in generating power with their machine.

I had hoped to go with them to the competition, but was prevented from doing so by illness. They got second place! (Incidentally they also received a gold medal. The reception of medals was based on points scored rather than ranking among schools).