Culture

Chinese New Year in Nakhon Sawan
  Nakhon Sawan is not a spectacular town. There are no beaches nor mountains. No skyscrapers or wild nightlife. It’s a quiet town full of great food and friendly faces and that’s  what we love about it.   Once a year, however, the town transforms of Chinese New Year. Nakhon […]

Chinese New Year

Trying to Thai dance...
Nearly a year ago now, our school’s Director retired. There was to be a big party to say goodbye and we, the foreign teachers, were asked to perform a dance. Normally we refuse these things to avoid embarrassing ourselves but we are big fans of this guy so we agreed.   […]

When we tried to Thai dance!

Party games!
  It’s Friday night and my sister is here to stay so naturally we take her to a fancy-dress party where we will be the only foreigners in the room.   We sold it to her as a ‘cultural experience’ and I’m pretty sure it was!   Because Thai parties […]

A Thai costume party…

Celebrating Loi Krathong
  We wrote about our first Loy Krathong last year and time has really flown by.   Along with Christmas, school holidays, Wai Kru and Sports Week; Loy Krathong is a milestone in the Thai year. Traditionally it marks the official end of the rainy season but to us it also […]

Loy Krathong

What we wear...
Here in Thailand each day has a lucky colour (actually they also have an unlucky colour as well…). It’s how children learn the days of the week and many Thais will wear the colour of the day. The day you were born one will determine your lucky (and unlucky) colour. […]

The Thai Colour Code