The ultimate show and tell (take your ele to school).
Growing up in England I was always perplexed by American teen movies, no-one seems to have to wear uniforms (the girls seem to wear hardly anything), everyone seems to drive a Porsche, you need a passport to go to the toilet, everyone seems to get over excited by games lessons and every Friday afternoon you get to bring something from your house to explain to your classmates: "Show and Tell" - in England we get kiss-and-tell which is more fun but is not really encouraged in schools.
Well, in Thailand, just as the kids are beginning to feel the New Year's and Christmas sugar rush wearing off we have National Children's Day, the purpose of which is shrouded in time and good intentions of a long forgotten Government and so is now an excuse for National Children to take a bit of a day off at school, eat more sweets and travel around the place having fun.
In the local Sob Ruak school they did all of the above and each class put on a show, lots of dancing and not too much karaoke...
...in the elephant camp, we thought we'd let the kids take their elephants to school - for a young kid speaking a funny language in a school a long way from home what could be cooler?
...Pepsi shows off at Oum & Pleum's nursery school...
...the elephants take the idea of the athletics field to heart in some form of mild stampede...
...Na Lak is still too young, even for nursery school, she's used to Pepsi but he was too busy showing off so she had to hold down Deang Moo for a little while...
...it is not really their school, or their stage, but Oum and Pleum storm the stage, some girls just have to dance!
...slightly further up the age scale, the boys try not to look too cool on Sakura and Manau and the girls try to pretend they haven't noticed.
Well, in Thailand, just as the kids are beginning to feel the New Year's and Christmas sugar rush wearing off we have National Children's Day, the purpose of which is shrouded in time and good intentions of a long forgotten Government and so is now an excuse for National Children to take a bit of a day off at school, eat more sweets and travel around the place having fun.
In the local Sob Ruak school they did all of the above and each class put on a show, lots of dancing and not too much karaoke...
...in the elephant camp, we thought we'd let the kids take their elephants to school - for a young kid speaking a funny language in a school a long way from home what could be cooler?
...Pepsi shows off at Oum & Pleum's nursery school...
...the elephants take the idea of the athletics field to heart in some form of mild stampede...
...Na Lak is still too young, even for nursery school, she's used to Pepsi but he was too busy showing off so she had to hold down Deang Moo for a little while...
...it is not really their school, or their stage, but Oum and Pleum storm the stage, some girls just have to dance!
...slightly further up the age scale, the boys try not to look too cool on Sakura and Manau and the girls try to pretend they haven't noticed.
...the next day we invited the staff kids into the elephant camp too...
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it sure beats the story of the kid in Boston taking a hand grenade to school:
BOSTON -- A Cape Cod school was evacuated Wednesday after an 8-year-old student brought a hand grenade to school for show-and-tell.
The boy, who attends the Ezra Baker School in Dennis, told his teacher that he had the grenade in his backpack. The teacher notified the school's principal, who called police.
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