With regard to making friends, Nakom is gradually starting to make friends with some of the other Thai students that he mixes with during morning tea and lunch. He is still even quite shy with them. Nakom does have to step outside his comfort zone and start talking to people when they chat to him. I know he understands them as they are speaking to him in Thai. We have a new year 10 student from Thailand that is currently studying in Auckland who will go to Tihoi with Nakom and Nakom is looking forward to meeting him. At Tihoi he will be living and socialising with 7 other boys in his cabin. They do lots of team building exercises so he will have to start talking more and getting to know the other students.
We have had other shy students join us and it usually takes around 6 months to build up confidence and friendships. Please reassure his mother.