After an unpleasant 2:30 a.m. knock on the door from Karn, I learned that the Thai team was at the airport and unable to find Andrew. I didn't know Andy's cell phone # (turns out he doesn't have one!), so I called Cyd. "Hi Cyd - it's Elisabeth," Pause. "Why?" replied Cyd. Happily, while I was on the phone with her, Andrew found a pay phone and got ahold of Karn. With the help of a physical description of Andy from me, they soon found each other. I fell back asleep.
The first day of class seemed to go well; there are about 25-30 students. We had a little struggle with installation - to make ARKS work on thai computers, you have to set all the regional language things to English. Happily, Karn knew that so we were able to fix it. A li
ttle more dinking around with the ISF and we were up and running. It was hard to get used to - I would speak, then Karn would translate, and the students would stare. At least if I jumped around or slapped my head or shook my fist threateningly at the computer, I could get them to laugh... me and the Three Stooges, crossing language barriers! They were able to complete the exercises for today, and we finished only a tiny bit behind schedule.
ttle more dinking around with the ISF and we were up and running. It was hard to get used to - I would speak, then Karn would translate, and the students would stare. At least if I jumped around or slapped my head or shook my fist threateningly at the computer, I could get them to laugh... me and the Three Stooges, crossing language barriers! They were able to complete the exercises for today, and we finished only a tiny bit behind schedule. Oh and I think I am getting a cold. Swell.
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