Miss Noot, Friends and Teacher, Road Trip Thailand.

My amazing other half had travelled to Khon Kaen on Thursday to attend a seminar at the university there. Noot and three fellow students accompanied their Japanese teacher.

Miss Noot is standing at the Osaka University display. There was plenty of information on studying in Japan at different universities.

This is Noot’s teacher, Miss Fumiko. Noot cannot say enough about how good she is. Noot really enjoys studying Japanese. I think she was very happy to be chosen for an all expenses paid trip with her.

Her three friends were Meow, Noon and Cat.

Noon’s sitting in an auditorium with a Japanese dessert.

Noon and Cat in a small garden outside 7 Eleven.

The girls on a Song Taew going back to their rooms.

The girls and Khon Kaen University students at dinner.

Miss Noot and her dinner.

Miss Noot in a garden.

Noot and Noon with some lovely red flowers.

Meow posed with an elderly man who sold orchids on the university’s grounds.

More posing in flowers.

Noot and a young boy who was working at the orchid shop. Maybe the man’s grandchild.

Beautiful orchids.

And to finish off, Noot and more flowers.

The girls did attend presentations on Japan and the Ambassador from Japan attended and gave a speech as did the chancellors of well known Japanese universities. Noot did take pictures of this but the quality was terrible. She was too far away and used the zoom. She was too shy to walk to the front and take photos. I have to work on that with her.

There were traditional Japanese shows, food and also lots of information on Japan. Also there was information on scholarships and applying for them. I told Noot she should try but she said “no.” Apparently grade scores to attain such a scholarship were too high for her.

Noot couldn’t believe the size of the university, that it was virtually a community with shops, hospital, dentist, taxi system and so forth. Also having a 7 Eleven on site was crazy to her. She talked about this for ages. I tried to explain many universities are like this abroad. You don’t need to leave the campus and everything is there.

So that was Miss Noot’s trip, sadly too quick. She didn’t get to see much of Khon Kaen but we might be travelling around there during the holidays and we can check things out better then.

Brunty