Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Today was so amazing. I was a little annoyed at first because I had planned on spending the whole day at Pet's school but last night my host mother told me I would be going with my father at 11 to another funeral (I went to one on Sunday and though it was interesting to see it was also very long) and I tried to explain that I really didn't want to go but she just said "No I think you go" so that meant I was going. Luckily it turned out well. We only stayed at the funeral for maybe an hour where I got to see monks drink juice boxes and I found kind of funny. Then my host father took me to the ocean to have sea food and then to a silk factory. It was so cool to see them making these beautiful silks and to see the whole process. Now I want them even more. It was interesting to since the village where the silk was made was Muslim so I saw my first mosque in Thailand. The best part came next. We went to a historic temple which holds some of the bones of the Buddha and has over 180 Buddha statues surrounding the stuppa where the bones are. Outside there are 3 huge Buddha statues and then there is also a museum that has relics that date back to the 7th century and go up to today. It was good because they had some in English so I learned a little about the history of the Surat Thani area. After spending time there we went to Suan Mokkha its another famous temple where a monk taught and this year if he was still alive he would be turning 100 so all around Surat Thani there are pictures of him and books being sold. Everything was so beautiful and intriguing.
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