Photos of Thai Language Day in Phuket
This album contains photos I took during the P4-P6 assembly this morning, celebrating National Thai Language Day. Following the usual singing of the National Anthem and the Buddhist prayers (during a torrential thunderstorm), our school’s head librarian took the microphone and explained the significance of the day to the students and those foreign teachers who could understand Thai. There was a dedication by one of the most senior Thai teachers and then a short speech by the school director prior to presenting awards to a number of students. A short Thai dance number followed and then skits (mostly morality plays, judging by the responses one of my students gave to my questions). All in all, it was a nice program which would have been vastly improved if I could understand more of the language (and I still feel that the Thai staff should at least make a cursory English-language listing of the schedule so more foreign teachers would understand what was going on).
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