Fulbright Scholars and Students at 2011 Mid-Year Enrichment Conference in Bangkok.We are all very serious people. No smiling allowed.
Bangkok National Museum for the Fulbright Party, everyone in their host country's traditional dress.
Muslim Malay attire for all the Fulbright students in Malaysia.
The Thai Fulbright students represent in royal splendor.
This Fulbright student is heading to the US this fall. He's from Burma, originally, but grew up in Thailand.
The Fulbright Thailand Director named Porntip welcomed us and Alice to the Big Fulbright Party at the National Museum
Julie Olsen, Elena Butler, and Alice in their Muslim Malay wear.
God, I love this guy.
Dart-throwing. There were other games and Thai crafts too. I sculpted a carrot into a flower.
Jaki Bradley and me. She's studying modern Malay dance and it's political suppression in Malaysia.
The Thai dancers performed for us then went out into the audience, teaching us each the hand positions and dancing with us.
Mike Feldman and Mike Vishnevetsky in traditional Muslim Malaysian attire doing Thai dancing
Team Malaysia! We raise our fingers in a sign of "1" which is the sign of unity across the 3 ethnic groups in Malaysia. It's meant to be tongue in cheek since it's Malaysian government propaganda without substance, in terms of fair government policies.
Alice with the dancers and Mark McGinley in the background
I am doing the Thai dance hand positions. We were asked to wear the traditional clothing of our host Fulbright country. I chose the clothing of some refugees I work with in Malaysia, the Karen Burmese refugees, who I also visited in Thailand. I bought this outfit from the Karen Hill Tribe grandma we did a homestay with in Thailand.
The camera always seems to focus on Abraham!
Abraham's interpretation of Thai dance.
Tossing the scarf game, kept them busy most of night.
Abraham was stalked by Asian photo-hungry waitresses. He finally succumbed.
Farrah Leng and Lisa Nowlain, Fulbright Students extradordinaire placed in Cambodia and Laos. Farrah is Cambodian-American and does research and intervention work helping memorialize and with the post-killing fields peace and justice trial. Lisa is doing art-based work in Laos on post-land mine living with children, making murals and videos on the topic. Amazing work, both!
We went to a Thai Traditional Medicine workshop. This is how their masseuses train.
The Thai herbal steam tent
The masseuse trained Boom to massage me with a hot, herb-infused ball.I owe her, big-time
Happy Ken
Happy Grif
Red Shirt vs. Yellow Shirts in the streets of Bangkok. Weather was nice so they all took to the streets to protest the government. Nothing violent or aggressive about the protest. More of a party, like Mardi Gras. Red shirts are against the monarchy. We saw these guys from our bus window. We sat in traffic watching them for hours.
Pumping up the red shirts
Red shirt protests in the back of trucks took over the streets of BangkokMarch 16, 2011
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