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My husband and I have a 7yo son who spent a year in Thailand (and Thai school) during COVID but has now returned overseas. We don't want his newfound Thai skills, especially his reading and writing, to go to waste. None of his school teachers from the village in Thailand have time to teach him, since their school places so many demands on their time, including on weekends. I have contacted some of the adult learning schools listed here but they aren't set up to teach children.
Does anyone know of a Thai tutor that's happy to work with a child for a few hours a week? His dad can supervise homework on the other days.
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On 10/9/2020 at 5:43 AM, rct99q said:
Wont help at the moment i have booked for splash resort next week.
Family so nightlife is not an issue.
Will let people know how it was. Usually stay at koh chang paradise resort but they did not seem to be offering great deals. Private pool room was quoted at 5,000 baht which is lower than normal but not a great deal.
How was Splash? We are looking at it for a family holiday in November with our 6yo.
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On 9/1/2020 at 5:48 PM, nemo38 said:
Reviews say there are problems with white sands beach resort.
Looking about the web I saw that I can get to Koh Samui in 7 hours on a ferry for 765 baht. So that is an option too. I guess a lot more is open over there.
I will have a think. I have a few days to decide.
[EDIT: I found that fast ferry, from Pattaya to Koh Samui, isn't running. So I will look more closely at Koh Chang options.]
Nemo did you go to Koh Chang? We are hoping to go in a couple of weeks but It sounds as though the places we usually stay (more expensive resort-y style) will be closed. With a small kid we are not worried about nightlife but it would still be nice to have a choice of places to eat and drink.
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5 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:
For me anyway, all the breaks were and are shortened to compensate for late start. We're off 10 and 11th of Dec and 24 Dec till Jan 3.
Thanks. Seems our school is still hoping for a longer break. Starting last week the kids are now attending 6.5 days a week (full days Mon-Sat and half day on Sunday). This is designed to catch up on the days they missed. Our 6yo is exhausted!
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Thanks @Brunolem that makes sense. And here I was thinking the teacher was just being obtuse, but in fact the dates may not have been decided in their little village school. Yes on dates - already looking to arrive 1 Nov so that will dovetail nicely.
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Wondering if anyone has seen the revised break dates for the rest of 2020. Since school started later than normal my son's teacher says there will be vacation "maybe in November" but doesn't have any dates and she doesn't seem inclined to find out. I'm hoping to fly to Thailand to visit and want to time my exit from quarantine with school break. Has anyone seen a formal announcement of semester dates?
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2 hours ago, ChipButty said:
Which 3 might I ask?
Reporting a couple of weeks ago in the Phuket News and Thaiger indicated the Anantara and Trisara had both been approved, with 12 others still under consideration. The 12 weren't named but presumably one more has now passed requirements.
I guess this all relies on commercial flights re-starting. No messaging on whether passengers will need to arrive on direct flights into Phuket. Perhaps they will have some secure transit arrangement through Bangkok.
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You can also try this Thai company whose website specifically says their policy/certificate meets COE requirements. Years ago they used to advertise here on TV (not sure if they still do) and we purchased travel insurance from them several times.
https://aainsure.net/health-insurance.html
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Great excellent. Will just have to arrange a tuk-tuk and minibus trip to Nong Khai. Will try to convince partner to make a phone call first to ensure DHL are open ????
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We have no electricity near our place and recently replaced our old solar setup after the set-up got a direct lightning strike and all the components went ker-bang. The family uses it for running a small fridge, radio, charging phones and running a couple of fans at night. The new system is worth it for the fridge (buying blocks of ice for an esky every couple of days was just plain annoying). Also for the fans as our previous battery system was small and used to run out of oomph at about midnight.
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On 7/24/2020 at 11:46 PM, Tango777 said:
Thanks both you guys for these replies. I saw them at the time and got sidetracked. I appreciate it. The thing is, if he ever ends up over here in the States, I don't think he can start school now, it's too late for him to learn English. Maybe I'm wrong. Thanks again. - Tango
He would be fine. I adopted two non-English speaking children when they were older kids and both learned English just fine - one slower than the other but that child had pretty poor quality schooling and care before being adopted. The second picked it up within months. In many countries children that do not speak English receive extra support to help them learn.
We have just done the reverse and put our 6yo non-Thai-speaking child into the village school in Issan and within a month he can understand the basics of what the teacher says, though he is not yet speaking much. He has made friends and is learning soft skills and frankly that's what's important.
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Hi all. I am currently working in Africa and my spouse & child are in Issan after being repatriated due to climbing COVID infections here. I'm now applying for a COE to visit but of course all our original documents went to Thailand with the family in case they were needed to prove citizenship, for son's school enrolment etc.
So now I need to get the documents back to me by courier - any of the internationals operate up there? Or is the only option the one via the Post Office? (Docs will be sent from Phon Phisai.)
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Australians must be interviewed for passports. No agents and no mail service. New passport takes up to 3 weeks to arrive from Australia.
Details & appointments at https://thailand.embassy.gov.au/bkok/Consular_P2.html
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For anyone in Africa (in a place with operating flights) - the Thai Embassy in Nairobi is arranging 2 flights Addis Ababa - Bangkok one for the 18th of July and one a week or so later. I only found out today, so clearly missed the opportunity for the 18th but will be trying for the later one.
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On 7/10/2020 at 1:27 PM, richard_smith237 said:
This is the same information I received from the Thai Embassy (UK) last night. Local Embassies are now handling the CoE application and approval process.
This information would have been extremely useful a few weeks ago. At least the steps are now clear and there is the possibility of repatriation flights on 19th and 26th with EVA Air (only business class seats available).
(Looks like they may have offered all the seats to Thai’s first who filled up Economy, not many takers for the £2500 business seat so they’ve opined up the flights to Foreigners - Just a guess)
Great update @richard_smith237 as I also need to route via London (currently in Africa but embassies here are not planning any flights). Have you seen a list of flights to Bangkok out of the UK that that Thais are organising? I contacted the Thai Embassy in Doha just in case flights with Qatar Airways re-start from my current location and I can avoid the UK, but they didn't respond.
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On 7/14/2020 at 3:40 PM, blackcab said:
The UK does not require any of these documents if a UK citizen is returning to the UK.
Thailand does not require any of these documents for anyone who is leaving the country, although your airline will check you fulfill any criteria set by the destination country.
I would be very wary about booking through an agent. Why not travel with EVA, who have been flying weekly from Thailand to the UK, every week without fail?
They seem to be assuming all countries want the same as Thailand wants from incoming passengers - when my Thai spouse and son flew back to Thailand that's what they needed from the Thai Embassy. Their Thai passports apparently weren't enough to prove they were allowed to enter Thailand (medical certificate being needed I kind of understand, but the "travel certificate" from the embassy was an odd request.
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19 hours ago, ukrules said:
At least he admitted his mistake. Everyone should be subject to quarantine regardless of who they are ow what job they happen to be doing.
The virus doesn't discriminate, neither should the government, they should quarantine either all of them or none of them.
The government is a signatory to international diplomatic conventions and will likely come under significant pressure to reverse on the diplomat stance. Under the Vienna Convention you cannot detain a foreign diplomat and diplomats are assured of freedom of movement and travel. Govt quarantine is essentially detention.
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Wonder what quarantine requirements will be in place for returning Thais and arriving farangs?
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From Smartraveller.gov.au on Facebook today:
The travel ban announced by the Prime Minister this afternoon does not apply to Australian citizens.
If you’re an Australian citizen or permanent resident, you and your immediate family will of course be able to return to Australia. You’ll still be required to self-isolate for 14 days.
If you’re a foreign national visiting Australia, you’ll still be allowed to depart Australia.
The new border controls come into effect from 9pm 20 March 2020. For more information, see: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/news-media/current-alerts/novel-coronavirus
For information on self-isolation, see: https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov
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3 hours ago, Momofarang said:Morality: For many Thais Old farang, Mia farang and Leung kreung kids are low excrement to whom seat priority doesn't apply.
I don't know, I'm a Mia Farang and I just ask the young Thais to move, particularly if they are in university uniforms. Often they are so glued to their phone they don't even notice who is around them; they are generally really courteous and immediately let me have their seat.
I don't agree with giving up seats to children. In Australia our older kids were taught to give up their seat to the elderly, pregnant and women on the bus. We've done the same in Thailand with our youngest, by making it a game. We encourage him to take the seat offered by young people and then tries to find the oldest person he can, and offers it up to them in turn.
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On 11/18/2019 at 10:19 AM, Old Croc said:
I would think only the receiving country would be able to give a good idea about numbers of arrivals based on citizenship.
DFAT would have no way of knowing every country a traveller visits when touring. There's no universal movements data base yet. (I think!)
Actually Thailand does provide stats and I worked in an area that received and used them. However their stats counted repeat visitors as separate individuals. So if you did 4 trips in/out of Thailand per year you were counted as 4 people visiting Thailand.
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It's been 9 years since we left NIST and daughter did grades 5-7 (her first year in Thailand she went to a second-tier school which was a bit disastrous). The school spent a lot of time supporting her in her transition - she didn't do terribly well emotionally in a really big school - as well as helping her catch up in the subjects where she had fallen behind at her first Bangkok school. We liked the pastoral care (though I understand 3 of 4 counsellors moved on this year). We loved the wrap-around education experience and the choices offered, including lots of sport. We weren't so keen on the really-really-really-rich kids, many of whom had been in the school together since pre-school and who tended to band together against the more transient students. Our daughter wasn't resilient enough to stand up to the "why don't you have an iPhone, your own car/driver, endless pocket-money" crew... Luckily it was a big enough school that everyone seems to find their own group.
After a few years back home daughter then moved to Prem Tinsulanonda in Chiang Mai as a boarder for the two final years (IB). That was her choice as she wanted a small school with outdoor facilities. Being out in the countryside there wasn't as much pressure to party, as they really only went into town (on the school-organised bus) on weekends. Ultimately we found Prem was a better fit for our particular child at that particular time in her life. But NIST did nothing wrong, and indeed did lots right in preparing our daughter for her subsequent study life.
Incidentally after completing IB she has found the first two years of university a breeze, says the workload is much less pressured and she has better planning and execution skills than most of her classmates.
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3 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:
Some interesting reading in the below link for any (non-resident) expats out there who own property back home. I raised this a while back in a separate topic and now those (non-resident) expats owning a property back home should be very concerned with the prior post warning of this, was passed into legislation yesterday, which means they could be paying up to 43% capital gains tax retrospectively, i.e. back to the date of purchase, when they sell their property as a (non-resident) expat.
I also believe that non-residents (for tax purposes) who return to Australia and re-establish residency at some point, will incur GST on the portion of profits that can be apportioned to the non-residency period. It's not clear if this will be a simple formula (ie: non-resident for 5 years, resident for 5 years so GST is calculated on 50%) or whether there will be some other mechanism (ie: if you have your house valued at the start and end of the non-residency period whether the estimated proportion of profit is taxed. Since the market is lumpy, the second version seems logical but probably overly difficult to police.
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14 hours ago, Peterw42 said:
My journal also mentions leaving/returning on a cruise ship whenever I arrive or depart Australia (only photo ID required, not passport), then leaving/joining the cruise in Noumea to fly to other locations.
Doesn't matter... cruise ships log their pax list with Immigration and your movements can still be logged by C'link. Yes I worked in a place (not C'link) where we used this data. No different to airplane movements in terms of where the records are kept, just looks different to you as the customer.
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