We get fed pretty much all day long at school. There's always a snack in the morning: various rolls or croissants or something wrapped in banana leaves. We also get free lunch everyday. Most days I really enjoy it, it gives me a chance to try lots of different Thai food (even though I usually don't know what it is I'm eating). In the afternoon there's yet another snack: more rolls, doughnuts, or sometimes fruit. This is a picture of my school lunch from yesterday. There's pretty much always white rice, then some sort of soup with cabbage, the top is a type of curry, and to the left is a spicy meat and green bean dish. The small dish is fish sauce and chili peppers, which is added to the rice for some flavor.
Last Thursday our school celebrated Wai Kru, which is Teacher's Appreciation Day. I had really been looking forward to it because I had heard stories of teachers getting flowers and food all day long and that it was a really big deal. While I did get a couple flowers from students, Wai Kru was a bit disappointing. The foreign teachers just sat off to the side while the Thai teachers received beautiful flower arrangements. The whole ceremony was in Thai too, so we pretty much just had to sit around for 3 hours not knowing what was going on. It was still a good experience, but I did not feel very appreciated. Here are a couple pictures from Wai Kru. There were two ceremonies because the whole school couldn't fit in the assembly hall.
A couple weeks ago there was a kitten roaming around at school. I tried to figure out if it belonged to anyone, but everyone said it was probably a stray. So I decided to take her home! We now have a Thai kitten around our house. This is Loki :-)
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