Goodbye Chiang Mai

This was our last week in Chiang Mai.  Sunday a group of 9 of us did a cooking class.  It was a lot of fun and while I might not be able to replicate the meals exactly, I definitely learned some good techniques.  We started by going to a traditional market and our tourguide, "Cook", showed us all the ingredients that are important in Thai cooking.  They had everything from pig heads to bags of MSG!  (Cook assured us that we would not be using any MSG in our cooking.)  Then we went to an organic farm and got to see some of the Thai vegetables we were using.  I got to make five dishes; Thai vegetable soup, green curry, papaya salad, pad thai, and mango sticky rice.  It all tasted great and I was stuffed by the end of the day.
On Tuesday I visited a Thai dentist and had my teeth cleaned for 600 baht, about $20!  Since I haven't had dental insurance for the last year, it felt really nice to get them cleaned.  They were very thorough and knew pretty good English, "You floss everyday?". 
We had our last two days of teaching practice at a school in Chiang Mai.  This time we were teaching 16-18 year olds and the classes went much smoother than the previous week.  Their English levels were quite good, so classes went well and they behaved much better than the 6 year olds too!  Originally I thought I definitely wanted to work with younger kids, but the teaching practices made me realize how much harder it is to teach them when you don't speak any Thai!  I'm still not completely sure what age I'll be teaching, but I think learning some Thai will be very helpful no matter what.
Tomorrow I'm heading to Lopburi with my roommate Ashley and two other girls from the program.  We're supposedly all teaching at a primary school in Lopburi, but we haven't really gotten much more information than that.  Most Thai schools are on break right now and I guess the Headmistress doesn't get back until tomorrow.  Lopburi is the part of Thailand that is famous for monkeys!  Apparently they roam the streets at will and can be somewhat of a nuisance, I guess I'll find out soon enough!