Songkran

So I don't have that much to write about this week because it has only been a few days since I wrote last. The big thing I can write about is Songkran.

It was crazy. So the whole holiday is three days long and the purpose used to be some Buddhist tradition of washing your hands off in this bowl once a year, but the holiday has changed to where it is now just a giant water fight for the whole country.

What we did for the day we had off was we got our good squirt guns and we went to some of the busy parts of Chiang Mai. At those places everyone was just shooting water at people and dumping buckets on people all day. 

A lot of people just camp out in the backs of trucks. These trucks will just have a huge basin of water in the back and the people will sit in the back and throw water at people as the truck drives around. 

There is also this thing in Thailand called the clong. It is basically a kind of really disgusting water and during Songkran everyone was just swimming in it and pumping water up to spray people with. The water is super gross and we tried to avoid it at first.  Then we just had to take it after a while, there was no dodging it. Afterward, we all used alcohol to clean our ears out and used this eye disinfectant as well.

The rest of Songkran was kind of annoying because the other days we had to go out and work.  All of our investigators were out of town so we were left with trying to invite people all day.  It does not matter if you are in nice clothes or not, they would still soak you during Songkran, so we had to deal with people dumping water on us the whole time we are trying to talk to them.

Not much else happened this week. Transfers are coming up so next week I might have interesting news. I’m not sure what is happening but I kind of think Elder Parish might be moving because he has been here for a while but we will see.

--Elder Cheney 

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