Mother's Day Ceremony, Thailand Part 3 2009

Way back on the 11th of August we celebrated Mother’s Day at our school one day earlier than the real day as it is a holiday on the 12th. I posted two other articles on the lead up to the ceremony here or the Buddhist merit making in the morning with monks here, if you would like to read them first.

Anyway the time had finally come for the ceremony for the mums to start, well nearly time. Here are some mums in their very best Thai outfits with two teachers.

A statue of Mother Mary was on the stage.

HM Queen Sirikit of Thailand, and the shrine set up to pay respect to her for her birthday and also mother’s day.

What Thais love to do, have their pictures taken.

But the day is about the mums, the following pictures and mums and their children.









Finally the school song was played and this meant the start of the ceremony. All stood to attention in the grand hall of Sunee Grand Hotel and Convention Centre.

We had a visiting Brother, taking the service as our two resident Brothers were in Bangkok on school duties.

The Brother then offered words of wisdom to the students, mums and guests.



The time came to lay roses at the feet of Mother Mary. Students, parents, teachers and anyone else who wanted to participate could do so.

I thought this was close to the end of the ceremony, maybe some dancing left and just the students to pay respect to their mothers. I made my way back to the school. A few hours later the kids arrived back.

I asked one of the teachers who had stayed on, “what took so long?” He told me a story that I am glad I missed.

I still have some more pictures to post of Mother’s Day but that will be in the near future.

Brunty