Every other year my school puts on an "International Day" to showcase all of the
different nationalities that go to our school. (the kid in the picture is one of my students from Korea, he did a great Korean drumming performance, I was so proud.) I think there are over 23 different countries represented at our school. Each country had it's own booth with pictures and items from their country. But the best part was that the people from these countries also made food from their country... talk about a feast. Each item was less than a dollar, and was authentic since it was made from people who were from that country. I
gorged myself on Indian curry and
nan (
Prinsen... it was quite as good as actual
Indian food when you are there, but close), a French blueberry tart, a Dutch apple and
raisin pancake (as big as
Village Deli pancakes!), a free sample of
Australian Vegemite, and a REAL American hot dog. I thought that I would be able to pass up a genuine American
hot dog, but when you have only seen hot pink, Thai
hot dogs -- a good
ol' grilled American
hot dog is very hard to pass up (believe it or not!). My class had just finished writing country reports on their own country, so you could bring in food from your country as well. So just in my class there was a huge pot of Pad Thai (complete with banana leaf bowls),
English pies, Damper, and Hot wings from an American girl.
It was a pretty neat day. They had half of the day to walk around the
booths and to watch performances from
different countries. There were some really unique dances from India, Thailand, England and the
Philippines... but the dance from Germany was my favorite. There were 5 little girls up on stage dancing to a David
Hasseloff song, "Life is life." It was pretty hilarious. Why they danced to David
Hasseloff -- I don't know. Another interesting part of the day was the England booth. You would picture a lot of white skinned ladies behind the desk -- right? Well here in Thailand there are LOTS of white men who marry Thai women, so the
English booth was run by 6 Thai moms in Kentucky derby type hats, very interesting school.
I did get up on stage.. not by choice. My mom had sent an e-mail to the principal to make sure that someone at school knew it was my birthday (well it was on
Saturday). Well, I ended up getting called up on stage, wearing my red, white and blue -- and was sung to. It was funny when my Thai director was singing into the microphone, a mini solo in Thai
English is always nice. So, I had about 400 people sing me happy birthday which was pretty sweet.
Every other year my school puts on an "International Day" to showcase all of the different nationalities that go to our school. (the kid in the picture is one of my students from Korea, he did a great Korean drumming performance, I was so proud.) I think there are over 23 different countries represented at our school. Each country had it's own booth with pictures and items from their country. But the best part was that the people from these countries also made food from their country... talk about a feast. Each item was less than a dollar, and was authentic since it was made from people who were from that country. I gorged myself on Indian curry and nan (Prinsen... it was quite as good as actual Indian food when you are there, but close), a French blueberry tart, a Dutch apple and raisin pancake (as big as Village Deli pancakes!), a free sample of Australian Vegemite, and a REAL American hot dog. I thought that I would be able to pass up a genuine American hot dog, but when you have only seen hot pink, Thai hot dogs -- a good ol' grilled American hot dog is very hard to pass up (believe it or not!). My class had just finished writing country reports on their own country, so you could bring in food from your country as well. So just in my class there was a huge pot of Pad Thai (complete with banana leaf bowls), English pies, Damper, and Hot wings from an American girl.
It was a pretty neat day. They had half of the day to walk around the booths and to watch performances from different countries. There were some really unique dances from India, Thailand, England and the Philippines... but the dance from Germany was my favorite. There were 5 little girls up on stage dancing to a David Hasseloff song, "Life is life." It was pretty hilarious. Why they danced to David Hasseloff -- I don't know. Another interesting part of the day was the England booth. You would picture a lot of white skinned ladies behind the desk -- right? Well here in Thailand there are LOTS of white men who marry Thai women, so the English booth was run by 6 Thai moms in Kentucky derby type hats, very interesting school.
I did get up on stage.. not by choice. My mom had sent an e-mail to the principal to make sure that someone at school knew it was my birthday (well it was on Saturday). Well, I ended up getting called up on stage, wearing my red, white and blue -- and was sung to. It was funny when my Thai director was singing into the microphone, a mini solo in Thai English is always nice. So, I had about 400 people sing me happy birthday which was pretty sweet.
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