Philip and I visited Mai Sot about 8 days after getting to Thailand. It's on the border with Burma about halfway up the country and high in the mountains. We met some Burmese migrants and I helped teach them English. I am going to do a whole blog about this because it was so amazing. We bought the family some groceries and they invited us for a middle of the day meal. When we arrived they had prepared a feast and we were the guests of honor. They had invited their whole extended family and they were all done up in their finest traditional clothes. All the women had these hair sticks in their hair and after some fussing they managed to get one in mine. These are some of the poorest, disinfranchised people in the world and they gave me this pick and they gave Philip a sarong.
Philip and I visited Mai Sot about 8 days after getting to Thailand. It's on the border with Burma about halfway up the country and high in the mountains. We met some Burmese migrants and I helped teach them English. I am going to do a whole blog about this because it was so amazing. We bought the family some groceries and they invited us for a middle of the day meal. When we arrived they had prepared a feast and we were the guests of honor. They had invited their whole extended family and they were all done up in their finest traditional clothes. All the women had these hair sticks in their hair and after some fussing they managed to get one in mine. These are some of the poorest, disinfranchised people in the world and they gave me this pick and they gave Philip a sarong.
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