"Jay"

Today I interviewed a young man named Sarun Keereesanpoom. He is also commonly known by his friends and by our EDGE group as “Jay”. He is 18 years old and comes from a very large family of 10 kids. He is originally from Chiang Rai (a 2 hour drive east of Ban Natoe) and has come to the Chiang Rai School of Agriculture and Technology to be part of this Canadian-Thai experience. It didn’t take long for our EDGE group to discover that Sarun likes to “break down on the flow”. He is a very talented guy and loses us in his dance moves. We have tried our best to follow his lead, but it has been a great struggle throughout our many dance parties in Club Natoe. During his free time, Jay enjoys reading books and someday he would like to study at a higher level in another country since he has recently graduated from his 3 years of schooling. Jay would also like to join the Thai military. For the past week and a half we have tried our best to communicate to the Thai students, although our Thai vocabulary is near non-existent. Jay hopes that one day the Shawnigan people will be able to speak more Thai. At the same time, he wishes we could stay in Thailand longer because he will miss us very much.





Savannah