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Boom Chetawan-wan…?
Friday, April 13th, 2007A little better?
The full school title is Wat Po Chetawan Thai Traditional Massage School.
Our main teacher is Chintana who is a lovely, quiet and gentle woman with the strongest thumbs in the the world. We have also been taught by Nok, who is lovely also. In the phot,o it goes from left to right – Nok, Pauline and Chintana.
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Chintana learned Japanese from her students and from books, and so teaches all the Japanese students as well. She went to teach in Osaka last year.
The teachers and staff here work really hard. They are all in at about 8am up until about 6pm. They work 7 days a week (!) offering courses that start everyday. Only every 3 or so months do they have time off to visit their families in Bangkok. Luckily though it seems that they are moved around from centre to centre occasionally and with any luck back to Bangkok.
On our 3rd day was the celebration Wat Po has every year on the 6th of April to remember Jivako, the Father of Thai Traditional medicine and massage. He was personal doctor to Buddha. In the morning there was a beautiful feast laid out and we said some prayers and had a ceremony. Then at lunchtime we ate it all (although I didn’t have any of the pig’s head!). It was a lovely little event.
…Well we had our exam last Sunday and passed! Went really well and we are now certified! I will go on to do the Massage therapy course while Pauline lives it up in the south. The practical part of the course, I will do here in Chiang Mai and then back down to Bangkok to do the theory.
Hopefully more photos and results to come.
Magical Wat at Doi Suthep
Friday, April 6th, 2007
Well we had a bit of difficulty getting there as we went after school and it was too late to share a 'songthaew' (red pick-up truck taxi that takes about 8 ... [Continue reading this entry] Boom Chiang Mai wah wah!
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
If you don't watch tele, then you won't get this title, even if you do watch tele, you may not... obviously it's the heat.
Chiang Mai is ... [Continue reading this entry]
Chiang Mai is ... [Continue reading this entry] …hiccup…
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
At the airport... nothing gone wrong yet.... unlike last time... is that a good sign or not? I didn't come on here just to write this - just getting directions to the hostel in Bangkok... I mean it's not like it's the ... [Continue reading this entry]
Excuses, excuses
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
Hi again
I had hoped to get more on here this morning - however long you spend online, you always run out of time... but from now on i will be abe to update more regularly. Keep logging on for more ... [Continue reading this entry]
Protected: B3
Thursday, March 16th, 2006Protected: Bogies
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006I missed my plane… and thanked my lucky stars!!
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
I arrived at Heathrow at 6pm in plenty of time to check in for my flight to Copenhage at 8pm. As I hit the departures area I looked at my ticket for the first time in what must have been ... [Continue reading this entry]
Me and my Visa
Friday, January 20th, 2006
Not so great now are you Great Wall... look closely, it's very small.
I got it! I got it! I was rather nervous because if ... [Continue reading this entry]
I got it! I got it! I was rather nervous because if ... [Continue reading this entry] 
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