Here I am ka....much later in the week as life has been on the go go go during these weeks ka!
A few things happened and here are several:
- My karusart chula (Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University) had a reunion to celebrate our group's 45th anniversary. Out of 18 in our group, 15 managed to be present. We had a function room just for us, knowing how noisy we could be....and it was so true ka. A friend wanted to 'boom chula' so we did after we stood up to the Chula theme song. At the age of over 60, we did quite well and YES, very loud too!....no one passed out kaaa!
Besides a vdo which contained memories written by everyone, we had two more activities ka. One was for each to bring whatever they've kept to remind us of the good old days. A friend showed a cylinder-shaped box with a rolled paper inside. She read it out loud that it was from 'Dao Chula' (Star of the Chula Class of 1979). It turned out to be from me and I was nothing close to be a Dao Chula kaa. I was embarrassed but it was a great laughing time for all! My friends said, 'ช่างกล้า'!
I used mentimeter for all to play. Funny to find different little things from my friends who may not be so digital besides Facebook and LINE ka. Several couldn't get to the page while others found they were a bit too slow to follow. Anyway, it turned out to be quite effective, especially when showing a Wordcloud who we valued our long relationship!
We promised to do it again every 3 years with little parties in between.
Another get-together is with my ship friends (back from 1985 under the Southeast Asian Youth Program...then sponsored by the Japanese Government). After almost 35 years, our friendship has generated to include our younger generation. We had our 4 Japanese friends to join a Thai friend's son's wedding.
This Thai friend has been super super great in retaining the relationships.....not only with our ship gang, but also with her own kids' host families. Amazing how she could keep up with all from Australians to Germans to Japanese ka.
The two events leave me to wonder how the younger generations value their friendship in this digital age and hope they can enjoy the beauty of friends for life the way our generation can ka.
Cheers.
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