Sunday, November 30, 2008

My Birthday and Experience Asia


These pictures were taken on my birthday, and on the day of the Experience Asia festival:




People with skill can carve fruits out of fruits and vegetables





This is a fruit carving (a peacock) from a watermelon, squash, and some carrots.





This is our Experience Asia booth.





A closeup of a watermelon and a fruit carving arrangment.





There are edible fruit kababs inside the watermelon.





A closeup of the fruit kababs





A line of people at our booth.




More fruits. The person standing behind is the one who is carving them.






A closeup of a carved watermelon.





The inside of the carved watermelon.





Me, behind the LUCKY EASTER EGGS booth.





It's my birthday! Here are some pictures.

That's Mega, we went to her house on my birthday to help her family move.








That's me, Mega, and that's my dad.





That's Mega's mom, in the black.


Sunday, November 16, 2008

Halloween and the KLES Family Fun Day


October 31st Friday was Halloween. I had lots of fun. My dad took these pictures while we were trick or treating:











Mega (2 years old) is is the chicken costume, I'm right beside her. The girl in front of me is Faith, 7 years old. The adult beside Mega is Jasmine's (a friend of mine) mother.










This is Pa Petch in her Cleopatra costume is the kitchen of Na Tai's (Faith's mom) house. We all stayed in Na Tai's house until it is time to start trick or treating. She won $100 from costume contest for adults at Silver Slipper.











Jasmine, Hope, and me at the doorstep of someone's house (Southwood).










There's Pa Petch outside an archway to the "cemetery."







This is a group picture of the trick or treaters(Left to right). I'm at the VERY left of this picture (50's costume, poodle skirt), Faith next to me(also 50's costume), then Pa Petch (Cleopatra), Mega (Chicken), Jasmine (violinist) in the back next to Pa Petch, Hope (Faith's sister, the princess), and in the white costume at the right is Crystal (Jasmine's sister, also a princess).






This is my full costume in the kitchen of Na Tai's house.





We're all eating after going out to trick or treat




This is the end of Halloween! November 1st on Saturday, Killearn Lakes Elementary School had a Family Fun Day. And of course, it WAS fun. Here are some pictures:







This is the Dunk Tank. You get to dunk TEACHERS! I really should have waited and spend my 8 tickets on MY teacher, Mr. Mazur from fifth grade...









This is the big bounce house. Bouncy! Although, I didn't have time to really bounce on it.










I dressed in my 50's costume again because it is the school theme that day (I wore it for Halloween too). I got my VERY first face painting in my whole ENTIRE life.









This is a picture of my dad and me out in open parts of the school fun zones.









They're having a costume contest in the Clover Court. I was one of the contestants. I'm the second one from left, in the pink satin skirt.








That's me, I took second place in the contest.









That's me (after my face was painted) with my close friend, Arya, from Ms. Buckingham's fifth grade class. That's the certificate I recieved from the contest.









My mom volunteered to help out in the "Treasure Booth." After I spent ALL of my tickets, I went and helped out at the booth, like tear the tickets in half (you can only use a ticket ONCE, then, it will be torn into two after you spend it), or hand out shovels to the kids who want to dig and try to find the "treasure."










This is me again, but this time, I'm standing in my own home, in the living room after Family Fun Day is over at around 2:00 PM.




Family Fun Day has ended at 2:00 PM. Below, there are pictures of me unwrapping a VERY large package sent by ship (it took 3 months for it to arrive from Thailand, Asia) and, me, at my school on the Science Fair Project Day.







This is a very honored Thai musical instrument called the Ranad Ek. It is very fragile, just look at all the cardboard and paper!









The sender, uncle Tu, has even built a wooden skeleton to help support the
Ranad from damage.








This is me standing beside my science fair project in the cafeteria at KLES (Killearn Lakes Elementary School).






This is my mom and me, at the Science Fair.






We got up early and picked the sweet persimmons in this orchard along with Na Gap, very left, Na Kae, in the blue shirt, Mega, the 2 year old, my mom, in the brown shirt holding Mega, Na Kun, between my mom and Pa Petch, in the turqouise shirt, me, in the tanish long-sleeve and white cap and right (from YOUR point of view) of Pa Petch, and Pba Aree, in the white shirt at the right.






Again, another group picture, my dad took both of these pictures, I think.






THERE's Na Kun, in the black sweater. There's my mom, in the brown sweater and red cap, Pba Petch, the one at the right and has a white bucket, and Na Kae, the very left one in the blue shirt that's bent over the bucket, probably peeling a persimmon. My dad came prepared, with a knife and and probably everything else that we might need. We were almost full by the time we paid for our REMAINING persimmons.





There's me, helping Mega pick a persimmon almost by herself. I had to bend down the braches because Mega couldn't reach the big and healthy persimmons by herself.




That's the end of our persimmon pictures! See what's next!






I volunteered for Fruit Friday once. The volunteers are supposed to bring fruit in on Fridays. I brought cantaloupe stars and flowers, and strawberry mice. Somebody might taken more than one mice, I have not even get a chance to get my own mice...





This is the whole platter, you can see everything from this picture!








Cantaloupe stars and flowers, and strawberry mice...






This is a picture of me in Ocala, helping to whiten the driveway. See the difference? Our grandparents are elderly, so we have to go there once in a while. Each drive takes 3 hours! That's 6 hours total for a whole visit! We're about to go next week too on the 22nd.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

KLES School Spirit Week

It's school spirit week at KLES!
This is the week to show your colors!
Monday: Hat Day
Be creative!
Tuesday: Pajama Day
Spend the day in your pajamas!
Wednesday: Club/Team Spirit Day
Come to school wearing your club or team uniforms!
Thursday: Wacky Tacky Day
What does wacky mean to YOU? Mismatched, backwards, anything wacky!
Friday: KLES School Spirit Day
How much GREEN can you come up in ONE outfit?
Saturday: Family Fun Day
Bring your family to have fun! Dunk tank, dancing and cheerleading entertainment, pony rides, face painting, KLES salon to get a new hair-do, inflatable slide, an obstacle course, throw pro, and much more! Make sure to be there if you go to Killearn Lakes Elementary!

Monday, September 8, 2008

Candle Festival in Thailand


Every year in July, the people of Thailand throws a candle festival to celebrate. The festival's meaning is to give Buddist monks light to read. Sculptures made out of wax candles carved with AMAZING details are paraded along the streets. It's to let monks stay in the temple for three more months. Young boys from Buddist families can also go and enter monkhood for those three months. My cousin went to camp just to learn about monks. One thing you should know about monks, if you're a female, you can't go near them. Only men can. You can learn more at http://www.thailandgrandfestival.com/festival.asp?festID=331.


(Click to magnify)




This person is putting wax on molds and rolling a bottle across it so that it will make a pattern in the wax.







After he's taken the mold from the tray, he will start trimming off the edges.







This monk is trimming the candle into tiny bits. He did not JUST trim the edges, but the inside as well.








This is an example of one of the finished patterns that will be attached the the big candle. They make very many patterns of wax to be attached on the candles.








This is another example of a finished candle. It's attached with patterned wax bits carved with AMAZING details.







This is a finished float made ENTIRELY out of wax and candle!









This is a wax sculpture of a mythical creature in Thai fairytales.








This is another wax sculpture of an angel.