The Test

Today I took the test. I think I passed, but I did not do as well as I would have liked.

The class is four hours, and today the first 3 hours were conversational Thai and the last hour was "THE TEST." During the first part, the other boys stayed home to study. There was a teaching intern, there, too, so I was the only boy with 6 girls. Fortunately, the conversation was about embassies, visas, police reports, and stuff I found useful. As the test apporoached, two of the other boys showed up (the Russian guy never made it).

The test was in two parts. I aced the first part, about consonant classes, tone rules, vowels, etc, which I simply memorized. Then came the part where the teacher read Thai aloud and we had to write down what she said. I made several errors (in particular, throwing random tone marks onto syllables which didn't require them) but I think I'm OK. Still, after the test the teacher told us how to spell some of the most difficult words, which I got wrong, and one of the Korean girls threw her arms up into the air and exclaimed "Woo -Hoooo!"

I found that very annoying.