Thai School Sport Day Parade, Isaan Thailand.

I will not post the hundreds of pictures I took during the sport day at the school. I will post a few over the coming weeks here and there.

The march or parade in all is probably about 2klms in length. It is a slow march though. This is the band leader or Drum Major as he leads the parade on the route.

The bass drummer helps keep the all important beat for the band and marches.

The cymbal player marches on.

These are former students, now at university and were back in Ubon Ratchathani on holiday and participated in the day carrying the Assumption College sign.

I am sure these are Indian style outfits, maybe I am wrong though. You can see the car I referred to in my first post, about being stuck on the inside of the marching parade cutting between the marchers here. I stood in front of his car to try and stop him but he was such a fu#king dipstick that he went around me and then got well and truly screwed a few hundred metres down the road.

And some strong boys were carrying a princess who is holding a picture of the King and Queen of Thailand.

This boy had a bit of an easier job, cycling a salmor or thrishaw. These aren’t so easy to ride as they have a long chain and only the one gear. So it probably wasn’t a breeze.

And on the other side of the Assumption sign and also in glittering gold was a former and current student. Carrying the sign is hard work; it is bloody heavy as I have carried it before just in the school grounds. The girls were given a breather by some helpers and only had to resume their duty before entering the school gates.

So this is just a small part of the start of the parade and more pictures will come over the following weeks.

Brunty