So I made it out of the hotel yesterday after the class sessions. First I got a short tour of many of the venues at the Sport Authority of Thailand Compound, much of which was built for the 1998 Asian Games. I was told that Thailand schools are out on holiday right now. Not a bad idea as the temperature has been hovering around 100 degrees. I thought the pool would have had more takers.
I have included photos of the National Stadium (seats 62,000, but I was told that they typically put 100,000 people in it for national team soccer matches and even more for concerts. I guess the Fire Marshall has really good seats :-) Speaking of really good seats I have also included a photo of the Royal Box which currently belongs to the 9th King of Thailand.
After the SAT facility tour, I was taken to the major Mall which is the hub of most of the tourist shopping in Bangkok. Interesting, but not my strong suit. I heard about a dozen different languages being spoken as people were hard a work bargaining. But for me it was mostly 6 floors of stuff, great deals no doubt, but a little too congested for me. I did manage to get some postcards to help build Sydney's collection.
Also, ate dinner for the first time in three days. Both breakfast and lunch have been massive here. Coupled with being very tired ab
out 6 PM, I have had no motivation to eat again in the evening. This leads to being really hungry early in the morning and the cycle all starts again at the breakfast buffet. Last night I hit the sports pub after returning from shopping.Discussion today focused on teaching methodology and primarily feedback and reinforcement. After explaining the difference between punishment and negative reinforcement and then the differences between positive and negative approaches to coaching, the questions came fast and furious. The China and Korean systems (primarily negative) were hotly debated. We didn't get through all of the slides, but it was no matter as the dialog was excellent.
Final observation for the evening. I am fascinated by Fashion TV. It is one of the few TV channels that is in English here, but it is basically 24/7 of tall skinny people walking to techno music. The fact that someone thought that this was enough to make a television station is a bit sublime.
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LOL on the fashion television! The pool does look pretty quiet...not a ripple to be seen, so I guess swimming on hot days isn't popular there? OMW on the stuffing the stadium with way too many people...I would have a heart attack seeing that and trying to memorize all the exits. Well, take heart, just when your body figures out the timetable on the food/sleeping thing over there, it will be time to come home and readjust it all again for back here...who knew 12 hours difference could play such havoc?
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