I’m at work, and I just finished grading exams. At least the Thai students averaged around 50%. Without exception, the dumbest of the dumb are the farang students, who are all completely brain-dead. But as a whole the International College students are all dumber than the average Thai student. We have to tell them where to sit and how to fill in their test forms. Some of them don’t even write their names on their tests.

But the nightmare of grading and proctoring is now over, thank god. I survived proctoring without any incidents this time. Jeremy was not so lucky, though, and engaged in some verbal sparring with an overzealous Thai teacher who was trying to bust him for reading email during an exam.

Next semester will be good and bad. Good because a Thai teacher is in charge of the course, so I won’t have to do any prep. Bad because this course will be even harder than the “Fundamental Math” course I taught this semester. This one is called “Quantitative Methods for Decision Making,” but, should be called “More Random Topics in Math,” because none of the topics go together.

And I don’t know who the Thai teacher thinks she’s kidding, because there is no way the retarded kids will be able to grasp any of the material. I expect them to all stop coming and fail the class. But since failure will be the average, they will all pass. Welcome to Thailand.

Another bad thing is that I don’t actually know anything about half of the topics, so am unqualified to teach the class. What the heck is game theory? But, this is Thailand, so that’s not a problem.

At least I only have to work three days a week, though! The less time I spend here the happier I am.

So, tomorrow’s Christmas. I’m thinking of getting on a bus for Koh Samui, an island in the Gulf of Thailand. So maybe my next post will be from Chaweng Beach.