14.06.2012
Fascinating day at school today. Thai people seem to love respecting each other at every opportunity so today was dedicated to teachers. We were asked to be at school by 7am in order to get blessed by some very grumpy looking monks dressed in saffron coloured robes who threw some water on us as we fed them rice. Then half the school day was dedicated to an assembly that saw every child bow on their knees before us and present all the teachers with flower wrapped in banana leaf cones. Pete and I sat on the boys side of the room and giggled our way through the director's unintelligible speech watching the bored little guys tearing up their flowers, sticking them down each others' shirts or into their friends' ears. Ai, boys!
The flowers, however, were stunning! Arrangements like we have never seen. Swans made of banana leaves. Pandas made out of tiny purple and white flowers, all pinned individually to polystyrene cones resting on gold and silver bases. Marigolds everywhere and even some signs of the Siam Tulip (a.k.a Dok Krachio) that is about to bloom like the Namaqualand Daisies in the national parks surrounding Chaiyaphum. All in all a very interesting event. If only we understood more Thai!!
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| Grumpy Monks and their rice bowls |
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| Chanting and praying for us |
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| Some of the flowers presented to the teachers |
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| Pretty sure this cheeky chap has some African ancestry...??? |
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| Lining up to present the flowers on bended knee to the director |
Pete and I with P. Maem, a Thai English teacher
(More photos on Pete's facebook if you like)
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