Party

On Friday we had a party to "celebrate" our boss's last day at Rachawadee Boys...a couple of weeks ago the head of the charity decided that he was going to do a bit of a reshuffle - to be honest a lot of the staff aren't happy about it...in a job like this you form very personal attachments to what you are doing (and the people you are working with) and an arbitrary move like that is hard to take for the staff involved...They're not in this job for the money (they get payed a pittance), they're in it for the kids they are working with and these moves have served to break the strong emotional bonds they had formed...

Anyway, we had a good time on Friday...a couple of the other volunteers and I arranged the whole party - we stayed up late on the Thursday making some lovely signs in Thai...



And we sorted out some good old party games for the boys to play...all in all it was a huge success...

In this picture you can see Chock attempting to open the "pass the parcel" parcel when the music stopped at him...I can honestly say that I've never seen anyone so excited in my whole life!

Anyway, as it happened it was misplaced cos he didn't win...that honour went to Nung who you can see in the picture below holding the spoils of his victory...Does anyone else think that I shouldn't be put in charge of buying the prizes for the boys' party games?

Later, in the evening, all of the staff and volunteers went out for a spot of ten pin bowling and a Japanese meal which was all good fun...Just a little tip for you though: If you're out with a load of Thais at a fancy restaurant and the bill comes, don't pay it expecting to be reimbursed in a "going Dutch" kind of arrangement...and on discovering that you have just payed for everyone(!) don't then expect anyone to thank you for your "generosity"!

I'm not still sore about that one btw!