Friday 27 June 2008

School party time again at Plai Laem

School party time again at Plai Laem

It's that time of the year again. The local school located at Wat Plai Laem had it's yearly party, as I reported also last year.



The stage was set for performances of the local students and plenty of local folks came out to eat something, have a drink, chat with friends and watch the dancing.



What the head master of this local school does very smartly, is to arrange for all food and gifts to be donated by locals but mainly by hotels and resorts in the area. From the sales of said food and the donations everybody give during the evening, they have a perfect fundraiser in place.

Interestingly enough, it was the first time that on the invitation envelope, my full name was written in Thai, a personal invite, my first one, usually it's always my wife's name with the addition 'and husband'. I'm moving up on the local society ladder! As you may remember from previous posts, the invitation letters are supposed to be returned with money inside them. Same principle works for weddings and the like (house warming parties with monks, for instance).



One of the dancing groups performing yesterday evening. Our children enjoyed the evening very much, they met lots of local friends and liked to watch the on stage performances.

Camille

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