Megan brought me yesterday to Mater
Dei the all-girls Catholic school she teaches at weekday mornings. They were having a "Christmas party", which actually turned out to be a Christmas pageant, followed by a Christmas ballet, no mingling or punch-drinking, or any of the things normal for an event you might refer to as a party. Still, it was interesting and festive. They had the school choir singing "O Holy Night" and "Let There Be Peace On Earth" and the pageant narration was all in Thai, but it wasn't too hard to follow, it being the nativity story and all. The ballet that followed was "Sleeping Beauty", we were told, although you wouldn't know it from the performance. They had brought in one guy to dance the part of (I assume) the charming prince. At one point during the nativity pageant, all the kindergarten girls Megan teaches hopped out on to the stage wearing bunny suits and did a little hopping dance to an instrumental version of "Let it Snow", if I'm not mistaken. See pictures below.
Merry Christmas, everyone! I'll post pictures of more festive stuff tonight or tomorrow.
Megan brought me yesterday to Mater Dei the all-girls Catholic school she teaches at weekday mornings. They were having a "Christmas party", which actually turned out to be a Christmas pageant, followed by a Christmas ballet, no mingling or punch-drinking, or any of the things normal for an event you might refer to as a party. Still, it was interesting and festive. They had the school choir singing "O Holy Night" and "Let There Be Peace On Earth" and the pageant narration was all in Thai, but it wasn't too hard to follow, it being the nativity story and all. The ballet that followed was "Sleeping Beauty", we were told, although you wouldn't know it from the performance. They had brought in one guy to dance the part of (I assume) the charming prince. At one point during the nativity pageant, all the kindergarten girls Megan teaches hopped out on to the stage wearing bunny suits and did a little hopping dance to an instrumental version of "Let it Snow", if I'm not mistaken. See pictures below.
Merry Christmas, everyone! I'll post pictures of more festive stuff tonight or tomorrow.
2 comments:
1. Richard is visiting????
2. Do they out-do Christmas in Thailand like in Japan?... decorations everywhere, taking the Christianity out of it and making it just into a commercial holiday, people buying a giving presents, etc?
1.No, that story is from a Christmas years ago. He's in Canada, as always.
2.Yeah, it's probably similar, although when I compare it to Chengdu it seems very slightly more appropriate because there is more of a visible Christian presence in Bangkok, at least.
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