Sumo or Santa?
How to describe how Christmas feels in Thailand? Claire made a telling comment. After school one day, she said, "Guess what? My school knows about Christmas...but they just know about Christmas trees and Santa." And lights, I would add lights. I really need to take a picture of the tree in our lobby so you can get an idea of the trees we see everywhere here. All colors, all tinsel and glitz. We've been trying to counterbalance that with emphasis on the true story and meaning of the season at home but the Santa magic is definitely taking hold this year.
We were invited to a kids' Christmas party where the Thai man dressed up as Santa was wearing an inflatable suit. Suited to the still-in-the-90's weather here I guess, but it just seemed wrong somehow.
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