1:21’s Trip to ChiangMai

Meeting the students of Chiang Mai University (CMU) was really enjoyable. I followed the students from our group of 21, who were doing radio, and listened as they exchanged information about the culture in Singapore and their way of life, together with the students from CMU. The students from CMU had a really good sense of humour, and they loved to joke with us. Mr Felix HAD said people from Thailand love to joke anyway. Well it was really quite evident from the short session of about 5 hours (:

There was this one time where one of their students asked Cedric, from our group, who’s a little on the plump side, whether he could climb up to the Doi Suthep temple. (Refer to the previous post for more information on Doi Suthep Temple.) Another one of them proceeded to say that Cedric could climb up the mountain but would then roll down instead of walking down. That was then followed by everyone laughing and agreeing. From that moment, everything was much more light hearted, and Cedric was then known as “fat boy” to them. On a light note, it’s not very hard to see why. Haha.

What I felt was really quite heartwarming, was that the students opened up to us really quickly. Topics we talked about with them ranged from talking about which Thailand pop stars we found good looking, to how Singapore and Thailand’s education systems. By lunch time, we were already talking quite abit with them and conversing with them like old friends. We even asked them if they were attached, to which some of them answered willingly and then proceeded to telling us about their boyfriend. Whoever said Thai people were shy and soft-spoken obviously had not met this bunch of students. Soon, we were even talking and asking them about their plans to come over to Singapore in the future, and telling them that we would willingly bring them to all the hot-spots in Singapore.

I’m not in the radio team but would think that the people in the radio team should be looking forward to their assignments now, having met the fantastic students of CMU. I guess now work will seem more like fun. (:

-Grace Yeoh

Off goes the photography team