Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year, everybody!! Hope you all had a wonderful New Years' celebration.
We celebrated New Years by going back out to the houseboat that we had been to in September. About 25 people or so from Grace went out there to celebrate together. We arrived at about 3:00 in the afternoon on Saturday, and spent the afternoon and evening playing games, singing, and talking. A few brave souls even went swimming! (It was in the low 70s there.) At the stroke of midnight (or approximately, since we didn't have Dick Clark) we toasted tropical Starbursts, which are quite rare here in Thailand. It was a lot of fun.
Then yesterday we went to a Lahusee village. They celebrate New Years for a whole week, so we were right in the middle of it. They did lots of tribal dances, which we got to join in on. We saw their bamboo houses and traditional clothing, and ate their traditional food. We even got to pound the rice to make rice cakes! It was actually a very interesting day, but you'll be able to tell better by the pictures, which should be up within a few hours.
School starts tomorrow, so we're trying to get everything ready. It will be great to have the students back again!!
We celebrated New Years by going back out to the houseboat that we had been to in September. About 25 people or so from Grace went out there to celebrate together. We arrived at about 3:00 in the afternoon on Saturday, and spent the afternoon and evening playing games, singing, and talking. A few brave souls even went swimming! (It was in the low 70s there.) At the stroke of midnight (or approximately, since we didn't have Dick Clark) we toasted tropical Starbursts, which are quite rare here in Thailand. It was a lot of fun.
Then yesterday we went to a Lahusee village. They celebrate New Years for a whole week, so we were right in the middle of it. They did lots of tribal dances, which we got to join in on. We saw their bamboo houses and traditional clothing, and ate their traditional food. We even got to pound the rice to make rice cakes! It was actually a very interesting day, but you'll be able to tell better by the pictures, which should be up within a few hours.
School starts tomorrow, so we're trying to get everything ready. It will be great to have the students back again!!
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Great touch in mentioning the starbursts...Enjoyment really is all mental!
Comment by Judy Long — January 5, 2006 @ 08:14 — Reply