Thank you Australia from the Lahu

April 29 2009, a delivery of school supplies arrived in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Kindly donated by the Avondale school in Queensland, Australia the postage donated by the Parents and Citizens Association.

I felt a "Pied Piper" moment as I walked through the village to the school house with the boxes and a stream of children came from the huts to join those already following us.

As we walked through the village to the school-house, I noticed a young girl totally engrossed in a tatty old story-book of the same type I had in the box, I knelt beside her and showed her the contents. The look on her face was priceless, but of course I didn't have my camera ready...

The children seemed very interested as I told them (through a couple of different translators) exactly where the gifts were from. They understood 'Australia' from a pantomime of a kangaroo but I think their grasp of geography is limited... hardly surprising...

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