"Patty"

Today I spoke at length with Jinnan/Patty. She was born in Chiang Rai Province in Doi Mae Salong (Doi means mountain and Mae Salong is a famous tea growing area). She told me her dad was a womanizer which led her mother into depression, and to punish her husband she poisoned herself and all of her children. Patty “was lucky” and survived. Her dad re-married and Patty started attending “welfare school.” Patty and her stepmother got along well until Patty had a child of her own. Her dad told her about training at Ban Natoe College and at first she liked it, but now they get so many visitors that she has to do a lot more work. She likes the Shawnigan students, though. She is a normal seventeen year old girl who enjoys listening to music and reading magazines, but she has been through so much trauma. Patty usually lives on campus, but is currently staying with a friend close by and helping her to tend to her mother. Patty aspires to own a bakery one day.

Esme