 Hi, this is Pam and this is week one. I am from India and I have got no teaching experience prior to this. I was going through the TEFL website and it looked very interesting and I thought I could learn something out of this because I was planning to change my line of work altogether. I chose Phuket because of a lot of reasons, primarily the place, the weather and of course the people. I arrived on the Saturday prior the Monday that the class was supposed to commence. On Monday morning we were introduced to all the teachers following which we were giving a training schedule as to what is to be followed in the next four weeks. The first week primarily consisted of theory classes during the mornings and evenings we were given observation classes. Monday and Tuesday we had teachers teaching the Thai students and we got the opportunity to sit with them and see how much we could pick from them and make notes and just observe them. The Monday night week one we were given a welcome party and we got to know each other, the teachers, the students and that actually eased out a lot of us and it was easy for us to get along with each other for the classes. Wednesdays and Thursdays we were divided into two groups and in pairs we got to teach the Thai students and we had one teacher observing us and after the end it was a 43 minute session and end of the 43 minutes the teacher would actually give us a feedback as to how we went well, what could have been corrected and that was a great help especially for non-teachers like me because the more feedback we get the better it is for us for our self development. On Thursdays the other group also went in their classes. Friday of course the teachers have been very nice to us and they give us a half day off so there is no teaching on Friday evening so we have classes till 12.31 and then you are free to go you are free to explore Phuket.