Lat weekend a student invited me to his wedding. He had spent the last month fixing his house for his new bride. I was excited about seeing the ceremony but not about the 4 hour ride to Umpien Camp. He had got permission from the Camp Commander (Thai) for many of his friends to come. Many people were very excited because this would be their first time out of the camp in years. That is something you forget that they just can't come and go that this idyllic setting is in some respects a prison. We were told that we would be picked up at 6am but like many things here time is relative and the truck for us didn't come till 7:30. Being the foreign teachers we rode with the groom in the nice truck.
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