{"id":973,"date":"2011-11-29T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/lahu-thanksgiving-3\/"},"modified":"2011-11-29T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T02:33:00","slug":"lahu-thanksgiving-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/lahu-thanksgiving-3\/","title":{"rendered":">Lahu Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

>It’s been a few weeks of Lahu cultural events! (And, yes, an American cultural event as well, but that’s next post!)<\/p>\n

A couple weeks ago I finally went to the village of one of my students. It was such a great opportunity since I told him a couple years ago that I would really try to make it there. Well, I finally did!<\/p>\n

We left early in the morning, piling into the back of a pick-up truck that took us a couple hours to the north. The weather was beautiful and sitting back there seeing the mountains and crops pass us by was so beautiful. Thailand is truly a gorgeous place.<\/p>\n

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The hired truck with some students and a teacher.<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

We arrived and had a wonderful breakfast (brunch?) and then went to the villages Thanksgiving service. There, several groups got up and sang a song or two, including some of the students, and then there was a message given in Lahu. It isn’t until I hear another language other than Thai that I feel like, oh I wish they would speak in Thai, then I would understand a little! I didn’t understand but got some translation later. <\/p>\n

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The oh so delicious food!<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

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Austin, me, Bouy after eating.<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

In an open area of the village tents were put up and people brought all different kinds of food. After eating we spent some time relaxing indoors – talking and eating snacks. <\/p>\n

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A couple of the tents set up with food. In the center people are grabbing containers of rice off the table.<\/font><\/center>
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One of the long tables of food.<\/font><\/center>
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My food.<\/font><\/center>
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The view from where we ate.<\/font><\/center>
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Eating snacks in Samuey’s house.<\/font><\/center>
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Samuey pouring some Fanta to drink with our snacks.<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

Samuey was our host, but I was able to see where another of my students lives, and a former student. It was a great opportunity to see where they are from and meet their families. <\/p>\n

Before long, it was time to head back to Chiang Mai – another fun experience under my belt.<\/p>\n

Posted by: Aj. Erika<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

>It’s been a few weeks of Lahu cultural events! (And, yes, an American cultural event as well, but that’s next post!) A couple weeks ago I finally went to the village of one of my students. It was such a great opportunity since I told him a couple years ago that I would really try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-generalnews","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}