It was actually quite fun. The kids were put to work making tortillas and chopping vegetables, and stirring the sauce. We had three groups of about 7 kids and each group made a batch. The kids had been responsible for bringing some of the ingredients so we were a bit afraid that we wouldn't have some things, but it all worked out, with Yasmin running home to get the cheese from our fridge.
The afternoon was spent home schooling and recovering from the chaos of the morning and then we went to a Baha'i meeting in the evening. We had prayers and discussions and then we all ate together. We had Korean style grill. The kids had fun feeding a fire in a clay pot and then fanning it to get the coals hot. Then we topped the coals with a pot that had a mound in the middle and a moat around the outside (excuse my poor description). We then added the meat to the mound in the centre which had air holes in it, and we added broth to the moat and began feeding all sorts of greens, bean sprouts, noodles, etc. to the broth.
It was a great meal, but I must confess that my legs were getting stiff from sitting on the floor. I'm not sure how these Thai people do it, but they always look so much more comfortable than us farang (foreigners).
We ended the evening with a game. This one was quite funny. We each had a unique, silent signal and we stood in a circle with one player in the middle. We passed the signalling turn by doing our own signal and then that of another person. Because it was silent signals, we could hide who was passing the signal by doing it behind the back of the person in the middle. They then had to try to guess the signaller before they passed it on. Sounds complicated, but I assure you that Goli's signal, which was popping eyes and tongue stuck out, gained us many laughs!
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