A Surprising Farewell Party

By the way, it's only surprising as we weren't meant to be going.

Basically, we were just in the office doing stuff minding our own business when we get a phone call from the Director saying that we had to go down to the main office straight away as we had to go with the Director to a farewell party of a Si Saket Governor person or something. We had to rush to the main office so we wouldn't keep him waiting and then get into the Director's personal school van and were then driven to the town hall. Once there, we followed the director in and went with him to the centre of the room but he actually shooed us away and walked off leaving us in the middle of the room feeling a little bit lost at what to do. We ended up finding a corner to sit in and grabbed some of the free food to eat and just relaxed for a bit.

Unfortunately, the relaxation was short lived. Suddenly, the Director came up to us and said that we had to sing on stage! Not the most enjoyable thing for for me. We had to go near the stage to sort stuff out and had to wait for about an hour to actually be able to go up. Clem and myself sang 'Let it be', as we could harmonise, and 'sha la la la la' as it was upbeat. It was weird as when we did sing them, it was just a few people left who were chatting with the man who was leaving so it felt like we were singers at a bar with three or four customers who are just chatting and not really paying any attention. I think you know what I mean.

We had to wait a while for the Director before we could go back and once in the van, Clem and myself started to just chat quietly, but we were shushed because we weren't allowed to talk in the van unless the Director spoke to us! What a weird thing that is. I couldn't imagine travelling a long distance with him not being to talk or sing and such. It would be torture. I suppose it's just another Thai thing that I need to get used to as the Director likes to show us off to visitors and such so we will probably have to go in that van again at some point.

A bit of a weird evening, but we got free food so it's all good.