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Dan Sai masks
Some are 2-3 feet tall. Quick update on the past couple of months...I guess it has been that long. Eight months to go and I'm counting because I've got things to do and places to go in that short time. Two years ago I never would have made that statement...eight months, a short time!
Here's the deal...I've completed 'The Book' and am now editing it, I've been redoing the school library and will soon begin building the Community Library. Not from the ground up, the building is there but it will have to be painted and redesigned. Everything in Thailand needs to be painted! Then we need to get books, more books and even more books. Do you know how expensive books are? Of course you do , you're all Americans. Money is always the biggest challenge and what we are going to do is sell, yes, I said SELL the book. All proceeds will go directly to the library fund after paying off my credit card for the printing of the books!!!!! Well, I'm only half joking. The local government has been very impressed with it and have committed 80,000 baht to its printing cost. The problem is that it will cost approximately 110,000
Colorful masks
Pack of kids heading my way baht for 100 copies, the first 20 will be personally signed by the author. I think you know where I'm going with this...FOR 1200 BAHT YOU TOO CAN BE THE OWNER OF THIS LIMITED EDITION, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND, ONE OF A KIND, HISTORY BOOK!
1200 baht is $35, what a bargain. We accept checks and cash, sorry baht only. If you are interested you may respond to my e-mail address bcgypsey@gmail.com or this blog. Please only do this if you are curious to know if I'm a writer or have $35 you don't know what to do with and really want to give it to a worthy cause.
June is Mask festival month for Dan Sai, Loei. Loei is the most northern province in Central Thailand and Dan Sai is the only village in the country that makes masks for a festival. The origin and meaning of the masks is questionable and I won't go into it....just enjoy the pictures. It was a bok-a-tee (normal) type of day, sunshine and temps in the high, really high 90's. If I thought I was hot, the poor people wearing the masks were swelting. The masks are interesting in that they are made
Too hot!
Very hot to wear with sticky rice baskets and tree bark and then painted.
One of my favorite activities is riding my bike through the rice fields in the evening. They are forever changing depending on the time of the year. Most of the fields have been planted now and a few are being re planted. That means that individual stalks of the plant are pulled out and transferred to another field. This is all done by hand and is exhausting work yet the people always smile and if engaged, have time to chat.
Hope to hear from you all soon....oops, I guess I'm suppose to say I'm too thai'rd to write anymore, so until next time....pop gan mia ka
Lynda
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