Every night, after we volunteer at our placements CCS has taken us to tourist destinations. They do a great job of hitting the highlights of Bangkok and giving volunteers some local perspective. My two favorite experiences thus far, have been a lecture on Buddhism and an Agricultural tour.
We met with a very famous local monk named Dr. Anil. He has his Phd in anthropology and is a practicing monk in Thailand. His family has linage back to the original budda and he practices at the Wat where all the kings since Rama IV have been ordained. He teaches courses every other spring at Santa Clara in the states and has lectured many times at Stanford University on Buddhism. He is extremely intelligent and charismatic speaker but it didn’t hurt that he was gorgeous either. Needless to say, we were a very captive audience.
On Friday, we went on a group tour an hour out of Bangkok to explore local agriculture. To be honest, I was not very excited about this tour but it turned out to be one of my best experiences to date. We took longboat rides to an orchid farm, a womens’ coup that made local goods, and a jasmine rice field where we had a crazy tractor riding experience. But the a lotus farm has to be the most beautiful place I have been into in Thailand. Riding in a boat and picking flowers was amazing. It really made me miss Josh, experiencing something so amazing without him.
Lenette
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