This is the first year that we've been able to meet up with Thai undergraduates. It is possible now because of the new Thai semester timing that more or less corresponds with ours. As a result, 20 Thai education majors met with our students to engage each other culturally and strike up friendships. I think this day was wildly successful. You judge….
Natalie and Raechel on the sky train on the way to meet the Thai students.
We all wore our program t-shirts so the Thai students would be able to distinguish us from conventional tourists.
We waited for the Thai students in the courtyard at Wat Pho.
When the Thai students arrived, there were plenty of smiles but some uncertainty about what was to happen today.
This is a "before" photo at the beginning of the day. Notice the segregation of Mizzou students in the back and Thai students in front.
The ice was broken when the Thai students presented the Mizzou students with Jasmine & Orchid leis that they hand made the previous night.
Ajarn Aea (a Mizzou alumna) explains what she has planned for the students: They will work together to learn to make a flower necklace, fold a lotus flower, learn traditional Thai dancing, cook lunch, conduct a bilingual photo hunt, and shop for and build gingerbread houses.
The following are general photos taken throughout the day...
Here is the "after" group photo at the end of the day. Who's in front and who's in back now?
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