I would like to introduce you to one of the best-celebrated
holidays in the world. Songkran is
the name of the Thai New Year and it lasts for 3 days officially. Unofficially however, it lasts more
like 6 days.
The holiday is celebrated by country-wide water fights. From what we can tell, there are
definitely a few minor rules of etiquette that should probably be followed;
however, these rules are easily broken and people generally react with a “haha,
oh well� attitude when it happens.
So, essentially there are no rules. You just have the right to soak any
person walking around outside anywhere.
When you drive down the road, you have to be careful because people are
lining the streets with hoses, water guns, and buckets of water…just waiting to
soak you. On the other hand, if
you’re walking along the side of the road, you have to be careful because there
are cars driving by armed with buckets of water and water guns who are looking
so SOAK you!!
When you get into the heart of the city, the water fighting
goes crazy! I have made a video of
what it was like but even with how crazy the video is, it can’t quite capture
the insanity of the water festival.
The first part of the video is us having a water fight with some of the
girls who live here with us and then the rest of the video is us going into the
city, armed for battle! No one was
spared our wrath!! Haha I hope you enjoy.
