Thailand Adventures: A High School Visit

On our last full day in Thailand we visited an all girls junior high/high school. There are 2000 students at this school. This visit was obviously very well planned out on the school's part, as it was well organized and executed by the school. Every person I came upon was very friendly and acted so excited to have us there.

We were met at the school's entrance by several students.

Interesting that the track is in the front yard of the school!

We see very large pictures of the King of Thailand, King Rama lX,meverywhere we go. Schools, along The highway, gas stations, entrance to new neighborhoods, the airport, and even in the refugee camps.

We were immediately escorted to classrooms. I was with several from our group in a seventh grade English class. The students in this class are a part of the " English Program" at the school. The girls were presenting about something that's very special to them and why, in English. Their English was excellent.

The teacher reminded me so much of Jack Nicholson!

Every girl wore a uniform and had their hair styled the same way.

The girls in the 7th grade class were wearing their sports uniforms. The typical uniform is a gray skirt, white shirt and a bow tie. Friday is "sports day" for Grade 7.

We were then escorted by some girls to a conference room where two groups of 3 girls each presented their science/math projects to our group. The math project was about bridge construction. It was very high thinking and quite impressive. After they presented, I told them about the Zakim Bridge in Boston and told them they should google it. They politely informed me that they had already researched it!

In the conference room there was a plate for each of us with a bottled water, a coke, a basket of delicious mangosteen fruit and a bowl with little gelatin sweets. The hospitality was wonderful!