It's still pretty damp over here, Of course it was melting tarmac temperature last friday for sports day (many kids had to be removed from the field or just plain passed out). apparently it's the same every year, the headmaster assured us it would not rain when we asked, in fact when we asked what the back up plan would be should it rain he just said there was not a plan B, it would not rain, they had prayed to Buddah, and what do you know it was a scorcher! It was a great day for me.
I did nothing but eat drink and very occassionally applaud in a sedate school marmish way (which incidentaly I'm not terribly convincing at most of the time, I too often sucumb to the urge to laugh at myself!).
Cultural insight of the month: Thai people (and Thai society in general) consider insisting and direct imperatives rude, even when you are consulting a doctor, dentist or other professional, in the west we expect these kinds of people to tell us what is in our best interests to do, but here they tend to say unhelpful things like "You could have a skin graft, it's up to you" leaving you wondering if it's necessary an aesthetic option or simply another procedure which you could have done if you wanted. Luckily it wasn't me in need of the skin graft one of the guys at work who seems to spend more of his time in the presence of the medical fraternity than that of his class, accident prone takes on new meaning.
Anyway better go get soggy again.
Take care dudes.
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