Field Trip

Last Saturday I took a field trip to Pha Hin Ngam National Park with over 50 students and two faculty sponsors from KKU.  We took a coach bus, left at 7:00 am and did not return to campus until after 8:00 pm.  Long day, but is was fun.  Also, it provided me with a good opportunity to interact with the students on an informal basis.  It was a Plant Taxononomy class, something I had not studied in more than 30 years. Glad they didn't ask me to give a lecture. If so, it would have been really short!

There are two primary features at the park: the strange rock formations and the Kra Jeaw or Curcuma (beautiful flower). Both were interesting.

 

On the bus ride home, the students sang some songs, in Thai, of course. It was completely opposite than western culture. U.S. students would have been sleeping or playing with their cell phone. Don't blame it on technology because many students in Thailand own cell phones too. If such camaderie was prevalent in American society long ago, then we have lost something very special - the ability to get along with others.