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January 06 +=_*"^"*_=+ National Volunteer +=_*"^"*_=+National Volunteer~*
As I mentioned before about being a national volunteer,
I was it recently in the one year in the memory of tsunami in Phuket. After all of the progresses to be a volunteer, the day I'm looking forward to is came. I was given the volunteer suit before going to Phuket. The day before going there Pang, Pep, Kim and I went to the Gift festival. Held by the architecture faculty of my own university. The theme of ths festival this year was gift "festiver". I spent a thousand baht for things there. We slept in Kim's place..
Real first day~*
Woke up at about 4.30 am then went off to the Umporn park to the bus. There were not many of the volunteer there. We found out that the buses were going to take off about 7 am. We felt terrible extremely. p'Bob and I are going to welcome the VIP guesses so both of us were sitting in the same bus. We're on the 6th ones.
Kim and Pang were together on the 1st and Pep was on the 4th(probably). We headed to Phuket at 7.30 am. Nice!!
While on the bus, lots of people there were quite really good at languages excepted me...
They spoke other languages such as Chinese, French and Japanese which made me feel terrible!! It took us about 13 hours from Bangkok to Phuket. We stopped a lot because of the weather. Toilets were full of us. The buses seperated into groups. Not all of us are going to stay in the same hotel. There were 3 groups of us, one was going to stay in Phang - gha and the other one was going to stay in Pha-tong and I was going to stay in Phuket Town Inn hotel where was really sucks!!
We arrived there at about 7 in the evening. I walked around the hotel to see where else I could go for dinner and walking. I found a pub called Oxigen but the local said that it's too poor to get in. So I came back to the hotel did nothing until all of us were taken to breif for the program tomorrow. Everyone was devided for the job description excepted for the VIP job because we only have to do on the 26th night so we don't have to go anywhere.
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24th December 2005~*
Today I went with Pand and Kim' bus to the Pha-tong beach. Kim and Pang have to work here. We walked around the place which is going to be the very important ceremony. In the morning of every places that involved by the tsunami has a schedule. Firstly, placing flowers to recall for the deaths. Then signing in to the memorial book. Lots of the visitors came up with tear, quite sad and upset for the volunteer. In the mean time, that's the programme but the government sent the laborer to prepare the place before the day be.
After breifing and learning how to deal with the guesses, we bought postcards to send to our friends back at the university. People around town told us that government didn't pay any compensation to the local but only for the other big guys over there. Poor them and they also lost their courage. Some of them couldn't come back there again because of the horror and disaster.
After having luch along the sea shore, we went to central festival in Phuket. I didn't buy any thing much but s sleeping back. Then soon after we went to Ta-chalom temple to respect to Loung Por Champ. Then went back to the hotel. Tis night we went to the Pirate club at Pah-tong beach. It's Chritmas Eve, I got drunk easily because of the tired feeling.
25th December 2005~*
The VIP job' volunteer all together went to Su Sarn Mai Kao cemetery to help volunteer there tidy up the place and also prepare the area for the next day. I read the masseges on the memorial wall which people wrote to tell family ,friends and the deaths. They made me cry. There was a really sad one saying about the warm family who lost their daughter. They sad they're happy that you have died in the very gorgeous place such in Thailand. They'll after you to heaven! I was reall touched.
26th December 2005 The ceremony day~*
I woke up late in the after noon. The arragement said that we were supposed to be at The le Meridian hotel at about 3 in the evening. So we went off at 1 pm. The Le Meridian was really nice and well-known for the foriegners.
When the VIP guesses came we only had to tell them where to sit where the way to the ball room. That's my volunteer job. Easy isn't it. I thought that the government has paid me to travel over there. When we got to the hotel, the thank you party was held. We were too tired to join so we went to bed earlier. My room mates went out for party. I surprised how could they gain the power from. Tough guys!!
27th December 2005~*
We came back to the university approximately 2.30 in the morning.
What has the volunteer gave me:
lots of friends.
how to deal with the other people.
friendship
money of course
A heart of Thai!!
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