Children's Day
Last friday was "Wan Dek" or Children's Day in Thailand. So my Mom, my Mom's sister, and my grandfather decided to drive to a small primary school high in the mountains of Nan to meet the kids and hand out icecream to them to make them feel good on their day. Up here, the people live in small wooden huts and are really far from just about everything. The children are really lucky to be able to study in a school like this. There were about 60 young kids in this school, all of which had never seen a "farang" - me, a foreigner with white skin and were really shy when I tried to talk with them. However, after I gave them all a bunch of icecream they warmed up a bit :D
Here they are eating lunch
Icecream! The kids are thinking "Hey, this new white guy isn't so bad!"
Yum! - first time eating icecream.
My Mom and Grandfather
More icecream please.
Me with my Mom and her sister, an engrish teacher at the school
A hill girl with her baby
One of these things is not like the other..
Comments
i'm jealous. I know your having an amazing time. I just started to read ur blog and i backtracked from the begining. This is amazing. I wish i would have had a record of how i was feeling at the time, I was just too exhausted and sending daily emails to my friends and family alone were draining enough.
I would do anything to be in Thailand for the year. The culture is just so rich and colorful...I barely skimmed the surface while i was there. But as a student back from a short homestay, everything going on in my life right now draws me back to my six weeks in Loei. I speak with Liz and Maria almost daily, I can talk to them better than ANYONE else i know...its so comfortable to openly talk with them about anything and everything, they'll understand me free of judgment. Don't get me wrong...we're sooooooo different. hahhaha and we always make our weekly fone calls to nancy and carlos...and applying to college is so stressful, i procrastinate with it every chance i get. but in school whenever i have to write a personal narrative, i write about thailand. I just finished writing my third essay in english about thailand...where its about a personal experience relating to a book (marginilization relating to Grendel by john gardner) or journal entry about an achievement in your life or a common application essay for college. its so easy to write about thailand...it just pours out....and last week i had an assignment about researching a national park you've visited over the years for AP Environmental Science (yes im a tree hugger) and all i could think about is that one famous mountainous national park in Loei, 20 kilos from my house...
continue to soak up everything in thailand...do it for us...even though we left, thailand is on our minds all the time...
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