A very successful trip to Mae Tha. Did six interviews - with women working in the electronics factories, a couple with women who worked in a noodle factory and one with a primary school teacher. One woman was making industrial size quantities of Som Tam in her back garden kitchen. She had a large tin bowl of live fresh water crabs which they had caught in the paddy belonging to a relative. As we were talking to her she picked them out of the bowl and put them in the blender, absently pushing them down as they tried to climb out, and then blended them whole. That was a short interview.
Thoord provided loads of secondary data which Bee got very excited about and downloaded a stats programme and proceeded to set up an enormous spreadsheet. I'm not completely sure what it all means, but may come in useful once I understand it. At one stage we had three laptops going and piles of paper spread over the floor.
Little PimPom was very pleased with her animal book and didn't let go of it all the time I was there. Although she has more than a lot of Thai kids she doesn't have a lot - and practically no other books. Her two friends were there for most of the weekend and the three little girls spent ages sitting in the hammock with the older one reading the words and the smaller ones looking at the pictures. I was sorry to leave Mae Tha - Thoord and Bim are lovely and I also really liked Pikot (I think she's a cousin) who was very helpful and kind. The picture shows her and PimPom outside Pikot's house. I went for a bike ride on Bim's bike on my last evening and went all round the valley as it was getting dark. The air was full of fireflies and the sky really clear so the constellations stood out.
Thoord provided loads of secondary data which Bee got very excited about and downloaded a stats programme and proceeded to set up an enormous spreadsheet. I'm not completely sure what it all means, but may come in useful once I understand it. At one stage we had three laptops going and piles of paper spread over the floor.
Little PimPom was very pleased with her animal book and didn't let go of it all the time I was there. Although she has more than a lot of Thai kids she doesn't have a lot - and practically no other books. Her two friends were there for most of the weekend and the three little girls spent ages sitting in the hammock with the older one reading the words and the smaller ones looking at the pictures. I was sorry to leave Mae Tha - Thoord and Bim are lovely and I also really liked Pikot (I think she's a cousin) who was very helpful and kind. The picture shows her and PimPom outside Pikot's house. I went for a bike ride on Bim's bike on my last evening and went all round the valley as it was getting dark. The air was full of fireflies and the sky really clear so the constellations stood out.
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