This morning we flew from Singapore to Bangkok. I didn't end up sleeping in the airport lounge so I'm going to be out of sorts today.
We stopped by our hotel to drop off our stuff around 11am and took an hour bus ride to Ayutthaya. I wanted to stay awake to hear all of the information the guide was telling us but I was so exhausted that I kept drifting off to sleep. I was so tired at lunch that I couldn't think clearly. I would start to have a conversation with someone in my group and forget what I was saying. Arghh!
We took a boat ride to the royal summer palace. The boat is called a long tailed boat (because of the long rudder off the back).
The royal sumner palace had a building with 5 eaves and 5 claws which indicates it is for royalty.
After a bus ride back to the hotel, we had dinner with 2 guest speakers - Dr. Rangsun: works for United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Ernie: works for an organization that tries to get schools to teach students through sports and play. Some main ideas from their presentations are:
1. There are 43,000 schools in Thailand
2. education is free to all Thai citizens, including uniforms, textbooks and sports activities
3. Refugee children (mostly from Myanmar) can go to to elementary school - the philosophy is that no child should be denied an education, even if they aren't a citizen of the country
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