Gkai, Gkai, Gkai....no TURKEY!

I thought I'd attempt to give my students a small cultural lesson on Thanksgiving, nothing too detailed. It was quite a challenge to explain but I went with it anyways. I had pictures of pilgrims, native americans, a boat, turkey, corn, and potatoes. Using a map I acted out how the pilgram went on a boat and sailed to America to meet the natives. They said, "Hello, hello. How are you?" became friends and ate a dinner that consisted of Turkey.Thats about how far I went. There are chickens about everywhere you look in PlaPak wandering the streets sometimes with little chicks following them or one under a basket that will be tonight's dinner so the word Turkey they thought for sure was Gkai (chicken) in Thai. After several attempts of trying to explain that it wasn't a chicken even after having them look it up in a dictionary they were still walking around saying gkai, gkai, gkai....oh well. I had my younger students make hand print turkey labeling the colors of the feathers and my older students write one sentence of "I am thankful for____." I translated "thankful" in Thai so they could understand and I ended up getting answers of I am thankful for: animals, apples, tennis, soccer, sister, family, rabbits, and guava...? humm

For my students at plapak noi I had make Indian and Pilgram hats to wear around at school. They thought this was a blast. By the end of the day the whole school was walking around as a pilgram or indian even if they had no idea what it was for. It definitely made my day feel like Thanksgiving even though my thanksgiving dinner consisted of...you guessed it, RICE! It was fried rice which is very yummy so I wont complain. Tomorrow I'm having a thanksgiving feast with the other volunteers where supposedly no rice allowed!

Here are my adorable Indians and Pilgrim students who I'm very thankful for! Happy Thanksgiving!