Well November 12th was Loy Krathong. It's a festival of lights and everyone in thailand celebrates. You create these little rafts and there is a candle and incense on it. You light it and send it off in the river bring new wishes in and old out.
At school, all the foreign teachers had to perform a dance in front of the whole school of about 3,000 students, teachers and parents. They told us the day before of course and we had one dance lesson to learn the loy krathong traditional thai dance in traditional thai dress. It was pretty embarrassing but the kids loved it.
After school, Mr. Wat and his two kids, Boez and Bam, Kai, and her two kids, Nong and Song, Matti and Kati and Matti's parents who were visiting from Finland, all went to the town loy
krathong festival. They have a big buddha statue, with a river where you can launch your float and dancing and music. Kai pulled us into one of the dances and we danced with a few of the
older Thai women there.
After the town festival we stopped at a carnival on the way home and went on some rollercoasters and rides with the kids. Boez and Bam are both in the english program and speak english really well. Boez is in 10th grade and Bam is in 7th, they're really great girls. Catie has Bam as a student also. Nong and Song (which means one and two in thai) are also at Sanguan Ying but not in the english program, they speak a bit of english but they're also really great.
Mr. Wat and his daughters, Boez and Bam
Dancing at School
Teacher at the school, Kati, Kai, Me, another teacher, and Catie
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