A Short Report: Volunteer Camp Fire in Galyani District Vadhana, Chiang Mai Province

This time I gained an experience to attended as an event organized by SAS MJU's Organization. This activity is one of the organization work programs that focus on community service.

The activity started on 26-28th January 2018 has several agenda that is: assisting community in making dam in the river, distribution of goods and food to students in school-village, planting of medicinal plants in village hospital, and clean area around of ​​village and camps such as: fence making, pole paint, livestock shelter, all these are social services organized to create healthy and clean villages.



This event was attended by several volunteers including Thai students, Indo students, Teachers, Researchers and some locals who came to accompany our activities.

Enthusiastic volunteers that look very valuable in every program. Group formation for volunteers every day is very effective to be able to hone various knowledge and experience.

Cheerful and happy looks every face volunteers even under the hot sun in the afternoon and cool at night, but still enjoy.
This activity is very draining, but very impressive for themselves in every volunteer. Every night there are various activities such as: around bonfires, sausages, brainstorming and story-telling, singing, etc.

On the last day we visited the Watchan Temple that's located not far from the camp, it's to relax the body's activity before. "Here I get a lot of valuable knowledge, learning, sincerity to seek life out there through a program of dedication to the local people".

Thank you very much for the chance provided by SAS MJU's organizational friends. From here I look for many new friends who are very kind, friendly, and willing to accept us (indo student) to participate in your activities. I would like to express my gratitude to Thai students, Teachers and the community in learning to protect the environment around us.

STUDENTS VISIT MUSEUMS: GETTING HISTORICAL INFORMATION IN CHIANG MAI CITY ARTS & CULTURAL

By: Al Fauzi Rahmat

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(Wednesday, 17th January 2018) Through this visit, Thai Student and International Student (UMY) at School of Administration Studies Maejo University getting chance for learning all about historical in 2 (two) museum places in Chiang Mai i.e. Lanna Folklife Museum and Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural Center.



The first visit in Lanna Folklife Museum, this museum provide a lot of information about the historical Lanna people (Thai: ล้านนา). Besides the history, this museum offers a lot of relic’s heritage a Lanna people in Northern Thailand. Lanna Folklife Museum that has 2 floors has many rooms such as goods supernatural powers objects collection, clothes collection, worship offerings, stucco sculpture, the process of mural painting, metal casting sculptors and all. In addition an International Student and Thai student has lecturer to explaining each rooms in museum.

The next visit in the Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural Center, this museum bigger than Lanna Folklife Museum, for this museum giving the historical information about the Chiang Mai and Northern Thailand places, this second chance we were taught everything about Chiang Mai province and the society-life in earlier time.

This museum has many rooms such as the historical king of Chiang Mai, Map/ locations of various temples and Chiang Mai province borders, traditional home, traditional fabrics collection, photos several local people, and all. This museum provide a digital electronics to support the historical information for visitors.

After this visited, hopping getting a lot of knowledge about Thailand especially Chiang Mai province such as historical, Lanna, art and culture. Thank for chance for Thai and International Students for join this activity.

Experiences at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University and Wat Suan Dok in Chiang Mai: Learning the Thailand Monk life of Buddhist Religion

(Thailand, January, 12th 2018). International Student from School of Administrative Studies at Maejo University getting chance to learning about Buddhist Religion at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University or MCU (January, 3th 2018). The subject take by Social and Culture of Local Government, this course is lectured by Miss Matchima Vachirapho.

In there, our student joining the English Program of Humanity Class to learn about ourselves such as the name, living, motto, motivation, and exchange idea about everything with Monk student. There are many student from another countries in this class, such as Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and all using clothes of Buddhist (Monk). They can be called as Monk. They’re young boy may become novices at any age. But in the role of Buddhist, the monk-novices cannot become a monk until 20 years old, if there are among them up 20 years old, they can to become a monk.

Following this class, many students from foreign countries such as Khamphanlee, he is a student at MCU, that the English Program for Humanity, He is from Laos and has a motto's "to this day is better than yesterday" He is good to talk about our country and family. He says that has 2 brothers, 1 brother and one young sister. He studied at MCU to become a tourist gauge for his country.

After that, our student to introduction in front of class in another class than the MCU Student stand up to introduction as well. Therefore, Indo Student discussed with Mr. Assoc. Prof. Yueng Pannengpeteh about Monk life of Buddhist Religion. According to Assoc. Prof. Yueng, every day the Monk’s perform activities of mediating and encircling, barefoot. Then can only eat before 12.00 p.m, therefore the Monk cannot dinner because it is the rule to become Monk.

Thai Monk in meditation at Temple will focus/ concentrate all thoughts and souls on religion, they perform various rituals in establishing. In the Monk there are rules such as not to kill people that must always live in peace and cannot commit sinful acts and in his life should not be too pretend/ fun. As well as monks cannot perform sexual activity, because better energy used for the main activities again. The Thai Monk should be fair and adhere to the human rights that have been made for the peace of all human beings.

This visited makes me understand about the role in Thai Monk life. Learning about it only getting in Thai by subject Social and Culture in Local Government through provided by Ajarn Matchima Vachirapho.