40 Ways You Know You Work at Wisdom Tree Home

40 Ways You Know You Teach at Wisdom Tree Home

 

1. “The Wheels on the Bus” is your default shower song.
2. You find yourself patting the toilet and saying “Good job” when it finally flushes.
3. At the stoplight you find yourself singing, “The light is red, the light is red, the light is red, red, red.”
4. You say the Thai word for a bowel movement when speaking English instead of the English word since it sounds less impolite to say it in Thai. “She went to kii!”
5. You refrain from even glancing toward the window when someone arrives during class since you know soon the entire class will be headed for the window.
6. You swallow every bit of that snack in your mouth before you leave the kitchen and join the children.
7. You spray off little bottoms instead of wiping them with baby wipes. Or toilet paper.
8. You pull toilet paper rolls out of the trash because you know you can always find a way to use them.
9. You CANNOT get rid of the song “Humpty Dumpty” running through your head at the ridiculous hour of 1 in the morning.
10. You are able to do the Hamster Dance perfectly. Well, almost perfectly.
11. You start telling children to get in under the shade and NOT play out in the sun!
12. When the temperature drops to 70, everybody comes down with colds.
13. You feed hippos and lions in the crawl space of the building.
14. You say “good job” or “geng mak!” about 50 times a day.
15. You say “no” or “mai ou” about the same amount of times in a day.
16. You say “sit down” and “be quiet” 100 times in a day.
17. You sneak in ice coffee drinks and sip them on watch at nap time.
18. You find yourself saying things you vowed to never say to your children, “Think of all the hungry little children in this world who would love to eat this food.” Aaaarrrggghhh!
19. You are always hungry, for some inexplicable reason.
20. You eat rice for every noon meal and so does everybody else.
21. You come home from work with numbers stuck onto your dress with tape.
22. You find stickers stuck in the oddest places, like on your back.
23. When talking to American children, you need to bite your tongue in order not to speak Thai to them.
24. You find yourself watching children at the local market, sure you’ll see someone you recognize.
25. You become indignant and outraged when you’re at a restaurant and you see a 3 year old child sitting on a booth playing with a smart phone while the parents spoon feed it dinner.
26. You become immune to  being grossed out by anything.
27. You wonder what kind of supernatural being you will have been transformed into by the time you finish your term of 2 years of volunteering.
28. You watch Matt at Dream English and Blippi  videos for entertainment in the evening because they are soooooo cheeeeesy.
29. You go to the zoo with your students and you feel like you brought the zoo instead.
30. You say “It is soooooo hot today” on the average of 4 times a day.
31. You send 37 kids home in the evening and go home and collapse.
32. You like going to church and simply sitting there and watching kids and being glad that you don’t have to be in charge.
33. You like the feel of sloppy kisses and pudgy, dirty hands.
34. You wolf down your food at lunch while overseeing 13 other little mouths.
35. Your Thai co-workers call you a fairy godmother since they don’t think you’re bossy enough, but you feel more like a wicked stepmother.
36. You get told by the sassy little cherub beside you, “Eat your food!” when you happen to be chatting with some of the older children during lunch time.
37. You vow that your children will not know what a smart phone looks like until they are at least 10 years old.
38. You also vow that if you ever have children of your own, you will not let them be an only child.
39. You wonder if YOU were like this when you were a child!
40. And when you don’t see your kiddoes for 4 days in a row, you start missing the impish little pipsqueaks.