I met culture shock last week.
He went by the name of "Field Trip."
Kinder, 1st and 2nd grades went on a field trip last week to the Jinnaluck Paper Factory in Mae Sai, a town on the border of Thailand and Myanmar.
I could get detailed and dramatic, but I won't - mostly because thinking through the details of that day cloud the fun that was woven through it. So, all there is to say is that I tried to plan a field trip to a place I'd never been about an hour and a half away and in a country whose language I do not speak.
=]
It was quite different from the regular trip down I-35 to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.
And it was indeed humbling.
::sigh::
again.
But, the kids LOVED it, and so did some of the parents! We saw the steps to making beautiful paper out of mulberry trees and banana leaves, then got to create some pictures ourselves. Aside from the surprise best-iced-coffee-I've-ever-had-in-my-LIFE that the adults were served halfway through the morning, the best part was watching my kids c r e a t e for hours. The joy that was poured onto me from children outweighed the fact that it was the most stressful day I've experienced since I left the Fort.
Today we received our dried paper creations in the mail, wrapped up in cute mulberry paper with a paper ribbon and bow, with a beautiful paper card and a Thai message inside it.
Our first field trip was fun, it was a learning experience for all of us, and it was therefore a success. :)
He went by the name of "Field Trip."
Kinder, 1st and 2nd grades went on a field trip last week to the Jinnaluck Paper Factory in Mae Sai, a town on the border of Thailand and Myanmar.
I could get detailed and dramatic, but I won't - mostly because thinking through the details of that day cloud the fun that was woven through it. So, all there is to say is that I tried to plan a field trip to a place I'd never been about an hour and a half away and in a country whose language I do not speak.
=]
It was quite different from the regular trip down I-35 to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.
And it was indeed humbling.
::sigh::
again.
But, the kids LOVED it, and so did some of the parents! We saw the steps to making beautiful paper out of mulberry trees and banana leaves, then got to create some pictures ourselves. Aside from the surprise best-iced-coffee-I've-ever-had-in-my-LIFE that the adults were served halfway through the morning, the best part was watching my kids c r e a t e for hours. The joy that was poured onto me from children outweighed the fact that it was the most stressful day I've experienced since I left the Fort.
Today we received our dried paper creations in the mail, wrapped up in cute mulberry paper with a paper ribbon and bow, with a beautiful paper card and a Thai message inside it.
Our first field trip was fun, it was a learning experience for all of us, and it was therefore a success. :)
1 comment:
Those creations are so CUTE!!!!
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