city notes｜things about going to school in thailand
2024-09-19
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this is the fourth mid-autumn festival for our family in thailand. eating hairy crabs from china hurts our wallets. a 15-ounce crab costs more than 100 yuan each, but the mooncakes in the supermarket are cheap and good quality. the name of mid-autumn festival in thailand is "moon prayer festival". on this day, there are mountains of mooncakes in the supermarket, with five-nut, durian and egg yolk flavors. the burmese aunt at home told us that burmese people also celebrate mid-autumn festival, but they call it "light festival". lanterns and blessings are indispensable. the bright moon rises over the sea, and the world is indeed sharing this moment.
every year, thai schools do not have holidays during chinese new year and other festivals, but they still have many traditional cultural education activities. my child has been in the kindergarten of a thai international school since he was over 3 years old. he is now in the third grade. last year's spring festival, the school's seven-day fun was arranged to wear traditional chinese costumes, make dragons, etc., and every day was different. there is no way, because this international school has three-quarters chinese students, and the remaining quarter has many descendants of local chinese in thailand. every year, the chinese, thai and western festivals are fully arranged. i don't know how well the homework is done throughout the year, but the holidays are very busy anyway.
going to school in thailand, there is no homework, no final exams, and it is a straight line up. if it weren't for the fact that many chinese parents came since last year, no one would have paid attention to the issue of academic performance. but where there are chinese people, you have to study hard. it's not that you don't study hard, but that everyone else studies hard and you don't. especially after returning to china during the summer vacation this year, i was basically beaten by children of the same age in china. take math for example, my child scratches his head and almost takes out a calculator, while other children can easily do mental arithmetic. i think i have given an extra 10 minutes of homework time after school every day, and i am already a hard-working parent. but after a summer vacation, the child said, mom, i forgot everything because i was playing. looking at the child's innocent smile, i finally decided to "study hard" myself. i took out a thai book and empathized with the child: it is true that we will forget.
but the pursuit of results that is in the chinese bones is really hard to get rid of, so i signed my child up for a math competition. maybe because others were not too competitive, the child who only did one set of papers won the award. is it theoretically possible that pie in the sky does not exist? there are 18 children in a class at the thai international school, and there are more than 70 children in the four classes of the third grade. ninety percent of the dozen or so children standing on the stage to receive the awards are the flowers of our motherland. justin, the director of teaching and research of the primary school department, is from australia. the award ceremony was held like a party, with dancing and shouting, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. dynamic music sounded, justin shouted out the name and class of the winner, and then there were excited cheers and applause from other children. justin also took the opportunity to encourage everyone, do you want to participate next year? give it a try? some children shouted, no problem! some children shouted, not interested!
be brave to try, do your best, and set no limits in a limited life. whether it is no problem or no interest, it will eventually be just a short branch in life. maybe being an excellent person is important, but i think that in the long time, it is also good to be a person who is willing to applaud others.
wen jie
proofread by xu heng
