nPostednon April 13, 2015
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Todaynstarts a 3-day water fight in Thailand!
Todaynstarts a 3-day water fight in Thailand!n
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nIt’snall about celebrating the Thai New Year, and like New Year’s celebrations in Laos and Cambodia,ntradition calls for a giant country-wide, multi-day water sprinkle,nsquirt, slosh, and gush.
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nWhether it is water shooting out from water pistols or elephant trunks, from hoses or buckets – it’s water, waterneverywhere.
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| Here’s something that has never happened to me, not even once, when I was walking around cities in Southern California! |
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nSee,nI’ve never walked down the street, here in Southern California, andngotten sprayed by a stranger with a water gun. No matter how hot itngets, no stranger has ever turned a hose on me or sloshed an entirenbucket of water on my car. (For one thing, we’re in a drought, and wenhave no water to waste!)
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nButnduring Songkran in Thailand, you can expect strangers to do exactlynthat:
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n…shoot you with a water gun…
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n…spray you with a hose…
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n…or slosh younwith a bucket.
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nAllnthis water play grew out of the tradition of water pouring, symbolically washing away sins. Many people still do the more respectful pouring-of-water onto the bottom of a statue of Buddha or over their teachers’ hands.
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nAnd then they go out and do this:
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nAlsonon this date:
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nAmerican Indian Awareness Week Begins (April 13 – 19, 2015)
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nNationalnScrabble Day
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nThomasnJefferson’s birthday
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Apollon13 Day
Apollon13 Dayn
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nAnniversary of the arrival of the first elephant in the U.S.
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nShamnel-Nessim in Egypt
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nInternationalnDark Sky Week begins (Apriln13 – 18)
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nPlannahead:
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nAndnhere are my Pinterest boards for:
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