Whoops...it looks like it has been a few days since I posted on here. Since I last wrote I've been on baby duty two more times: one night shift and one day shift. Oh, and I started knitting him little socks. They are quite adorable. I have a strong suspicion that this little boy is going to rip my heart out in just a few short months when I have to leave. He is already so dear to my heart.
Tomorrow we're taking the whole gang (except baby Non, I presume) down the street to the wedding of one of the Thai staff here, Kak. She is Christian and her husband is Buddhist, so this is actually their second wedding. They had a Buddhist wedding a few weeks ago that I wasn't able to go to because I was working with the kids, and now they will be having a Christian wedding at another Thai staff's house. I kind of wish I could have been at both, if only to see the difference between traditional Buddhist and Christian weddings in Thailand.
Thai weddings are funny. In every wedding picture that I have seen, as well as in the one Thai wedding I've been to, there is always a bright blue or pink or red backdrop behind the stage with the names of the bride and groom, the wedding date, and maybe some other words written in big blocky Styrofoam letters. In Thailand, that is just what weddings look like. In America, that would just be tacky. It's funny how different traditions seem so weird to one culture but absolutely the norm in other cultures. It makes me wonder what traditions we have that would seem tacky like that.
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