Thai scouting is part of every Thai school curriculum and part of the curriculum is camping out for a few nights.
A few years ago the older students would always go out to a forested area, it wasn’t too far from Ubon Ratchathani, around 30klms. They had to have cold showers, walk through mud, and cook their own food and so forth. And the majority of the students hated it.
Then they stopped going to the bush, maybe there were too many complaints from parents, but now they are able to camp on the school oval and attend activities in the school or nearby.
I personally would have loved to be out in the scrub. Just a swag, a few cans of food and plenty of water. Away from civilization and your parents with just your mates and some teachers. How could this be bad?
So the tents were being erected on the oval. These were primary 4 to 6 level.
And for safety and no students wandered about in the night, the girls and boys tents were at opposite ends of the oval with a huge gap in between.
This fellow looked pretty pleased with his tent erection ability.
I didn’t see one tent that actually had poles. All tents were dome style with those bendable rods that have elastic running through them. I am sure these kids would have never seen a real cabin tent with awning. My old Kookaburra tent was over $400 dollars and that was a long time ago. These dome tents are fine for this style camping for sure.
And one boy was inside his tent unpacking his bag.
At the other end of the oval, some girls were enjoying their tent.
The girls would be cosy in their tent at night.
This primary girl had a tent all to herself.
There were a few of these camouflaged army styled tents.
This small tent, I am sure is meant to be for one person. It was hosting 4 girls the next two nights. I am not sure how they were all going to fit and also put all their gear inside as well. Right next to them was a massive blue tent. It could have slept 6 kids or 4 adults but there were only two small girls in this tent.
So the students were ready to start their scouting activities and then enjoy two nights of camp fire fun (there were no fires apparently)
Brunty
4 comments:
Looks like fun Brubty and I'm sure the kids had a blast. Brings back memories of my own scouting days, though we had it a bit more rustic. Hour long hike into the woods with full packs and tents on our backs, no pop-up tents, we had old Korean war army issue tents that were a bitch to set up and smelled like mold. We did however get to make our own campfires and cook over the open fires...ahhh the carefree days of youth. No parents and teachers and the scout leaders spent their time in a cabin several hundred yards away drinking and playing cards. It's as close to unsupervised as a kid could get and I'm guessing there's NO WAY something like that would fly in today's ultra-safe society.
so fun, it reminds me of 'camping' in a tent in our backyard when I was a kid. We got to be outside, in a tent but had all the amenities of plumbing and oven-cooked food. I personally hated camping - my family always went 'primitive' to places that were a hike from the nearest road, without piped water or even a metal grill, just a fire pit for cooking.
Steve, when we camped it was a little more out in the bush than this. Your tent didn't sound like a nice place to sleep.
That is the fun making fires and doing your own cooking.
Parent free is great when a kid and also limited teacher supervision also nice.
Sadly many parents turn up at teh school to check on their babies and drop stuff off for them.
SLteacher, I also camped in teh backyard a few times. I am the opposite to you and loved roughing it, we would spend weeks in the bush on shooting trips with just a basic camp site, had a shower that we could add some hot water to but most of the time the sun heated it enough.
An outback toilet and we would drive out to the farm house where we stayed to refill water when low.
These were great times.
Thanks for dropping by
i hope the kids realized how much fun camping should be. sometimes when we're made to do things we don't appreciate them very much.
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