School                                                                                                                                                   

 

Sign by the entrance to the school

 

Sign along the road and in front of the school

 

School buildings

 

Soccer field

They are very much into soccer. 

There is a game every evening and several Saturday

and Sunday

The school system in this country is military based.  The teachers are ranked like in the military.  They all have uniforms from the principal on down to the youngest student.  Monday is the military uniform day, Wednesday their boy or girl scout uniform and the other days a type of uniform of different colors.  On Friday the teachers are to wear dress clothes.

The boys will go into the military for at least 2 years after school.

 

These boy scouts are marching to their next class.

One boy was blowing a whistle for their steps.

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One little fellow did not like it and had his hands over

his ears.

 

A group of girls scouts marching to the kitchen.

 

The first Friday here I visited the school across from where Batty lives.  Her Aunt Toon is a teacher there, her uncle Chai was the principal, is now retired.  It was camp day.  The different classes were making the food for the noon meal.  Some of the older ones actually went camping that night.  Pan was one that went camping.

 

Toon's class was working with rice, fruit and coconut milk.

 

 

The different fruits and veggies they wll be working with.

 

Toon explaining the different things.

We then went into the classroom and she explained that a

"babana" was a single fruit and held up just one.

I hated to correct the teacher in front of the class but

I did want them to know the correct spelling so I erased the

wrong spelling and wrote the correct.  Would have liked to tell

them about a bunch but thought too much English for 6 year olds. 

 

 

Making coconut milk.

The coconut is shredded, water put on and worked into the coconut.

It is then squeezed (by hand) into the pan in the foreground, shreddings put back into

the original pan, more water put on and the process done over again.  The milk is strained

through the green cloth.

 

 

Cutting banana leaves to wrap sticky rice and fruit in

to be steamed.

 

Students cutting bananas in fourths.

You should see the knives they are using.  They have

done it before as they are quite good at it.

 

 

The kitchen

Some mothers and grandmothers have come in to do the cooking.

Here they are making fried rice

 

My plate of food; fried rice, Queen of fruit and corn.

The rice in a banana leaf was not done yet.

Some was sent over to out house and I had some for supper.

 

On another day Batty, Bert and I furninshed pork noodle soup

and boxes of juice for 320 students, homemade lime aide for the teachers.

Bert did a lot of lime squeezing that morning.

I wanted to go and help but I had been hit with

Siam's revenge and was in bed/bathroom.