Today was fun. I woke up early, skipped my run and went to work a full hour and a half before I really needed to. Now, this must be sarcasm, you're thinking, but it's not. It was amazing. Tremendous. Totally hilarious.
Why?
Wai Kru Day.
What is that? It when all the students from all the classes line up and give highly arranged and decorated flower arrangement pieces to all their teachers. This, of course, is after they crawl on their knees to you (we had chairs) and bow face-to-ground-total-kowtow style. And even before that, they sang to us, chanted about being better students and how they appreciate us and all the kids did a kowtow to apologize for being bad students in the past (I want to stand up and cheer).
I was given so many flowers, incense and candles that I had to keep them on my lap, and then give them to someone with a bucket (this repeated itself three times). Sometimes we "blessed" our students on the head as the kowtowed telling them to "lead good lives" and "be a doctor" (I said "Have fun").
Totally made this entire month of Teaching Hell worth it.
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