My trip

I went to Chaiyaphom to join in the local project which calls “Thamayatra” with our class. It is a campaign to protect the environment in the province that these days have been destroyed by human hands. This campaign didn’t stay at one place; we had to walk around the main river and cross the mountain, went to visit the other village every day which took the distance for 86 kilometers in 7 days.

In the parade, there were monks, students like us, doctors and other people who were interested in this project and wanted to help people. We had to hold the flags which are Thailand’s flag, Buddhism’s flags, Thamayatra flags and others, which made the parade look powerful.

In this trip, we were walking to the villages and gave the knowledge to the villagers, having the activities to prove that the local river is dirty and make them sick, having the Buddhism ceremony, taking about the problems with people for example the doctor would give the advice about the health and diseases which the villagers get it from the pesticide when they grew the crop. The Thamayatra’s stuff showed the slide about the nature problems in the province to the villagers. They did many things, having a show every night, take care about the food and water that we need. I appreciated them so much because they did everything, the activities for fun, and the activities for knowledge.

After the campaign, we walked up the mountain and stay there for one night. But before we went there, there was a forest fire which the stuff and us went to see it and decided to help if we can do .The forest fire was ended by the villagers who live nearby. This situation caused a lot of time so it made us late to go up the mountain, but we still going there. We were lost and couldn’t find the cliff that we had to go. We walked until midnight and decided to sleep at the best place that we could find. That night made me very tired, but I felt happy because all the way up here wasn’t comfortable and easy to come up. We helped each other all the way.

This trip gave many things to me. I learnt to be patient and learnt to be a person who care about other people that I don’t know before. I learnt to stay with many people and learnt to live easily. The things we ate, the place we slept or took a shower weren’t comfortable and like our home. When I stayed there for 10-11 days, I had a simple life. We didn’t have more technology there. We didn’t have a place for shopping or some things special to eat. We walked and learnt. We had 5 -6 hours to sleep. I think this trip gave me a good experience in my life. And taught me many things that so important. It was a life experience that you couldn’t get it from other place.