Academic Camp in Chantaburi

The opportunity to spend time with students outside the classroom I find is a great experience. Therefore when I heard the school were organising a camp to Chantaburi I offered to go with them.
One the morning of the camp everybody met and school and turns out there were only 42 students going with 27 teachers. I was one of only three foreign teachers so I thought I would have a lot to do teaching the students English. Throughout the whole weekend though only one five minute activity was dedicated to English and for those five minutes what I did was dance around like crazy wearing all sorts of clothes. The students worked in groups to list as many of the clothes as they could.
For the rest of the weekend the students learnt in Thai as we visited a Temple, a Church, a Market some wetlands and went swimming at the beach.
We were told we would be staying at the Paradise Resort in Chantaburi. I expected something quite nice and reports from teachers were the hotels they stayed in previous years were really comfortable rooms. Paradise Resort though was a school camp and I slept on thin mat on the floor in a room with twenty or so of the boys and a half a dozen teachers.
A couple of highlights of the weekend was the Aquarium we visited which had an impressive tunnel tank were we walked underneath the large stingrays, manta rays and small sharks. The other highlight was Oasis Sea World were we all watched a dolphin show. The dolphins looked very unhealthy though and I think they may be mistreated.

I am not sure the students learnt a lot on the camp but I enjoyed the experience and it was a good way to explore Chantaburi a part of Thailand I had not previously been.