Mercy02’s Blog

On Thursday morning, I went to Ajan Marjorie’s 8:00 class to visit and help her with the Spring Festival which included egg decoration, Easter egg hunt and egg toss. Kathy, Seashia and I all went when the class was still in section; she was explaining to the student what the purpose of Easter was and how it came about. She also explained that this occasion is always on a Sunday between March 18th and April 19.  It was interesting because I got to learn something new; I realized that Christians from the third century mapped out Easter by choosing it to be during the Pascal full moon. And it’s always in the spring in other countries because it is when most of things that died in the fall get new and live again which I thought was an intriguing concept because Jesus was crucified on Friday and resurrected in Sunday. Then after, she asked them to decorate the boiled eggs they brought from home; while they were decorating, we went outside to hide the “wanna be” Easter eggs. Since she couldn’t find regular Easter eggs, we ended up hiding different kinds of chocolates. The students then headed out and searched for the chocolates; it was easy for them to find because there were not any hiding places to hide them except on the tables and chairs in front of the classes and we threw some on the grass as well. After the “egg hunt”, we proceeded onto egg tossing, where we paired up and tossed non boiled eggs so the last two groups standing won prices as well as those who won the egg decorations.

Over all I really enjoyed the class because I got to learn something new, I got to meet more people as well having fun with the Thai students.