3rd culture kids: Fishy Thailand

We are off for a quick holiday to Thailand this week - EUREKA!

To be perfectly honest we have planned a pretty stock-standard resort holiday and I have no burning desire for adventure on this trip, but that said I'm sure we'll see plenty of Thai Fisherman in their boats out on the ocean. Definitely an opportunity to tell Miss May and her little condo buddies that great folk tale of the "Two Thai Fisherman Ta-In and Ta-na"!

NOTE: if you google Ta-In and Ta-Na you can read the story in full - here is my abridged version..

Ta-In and Ta-Na were great friends who both lived in a small costal village in Thailand. They were really good fisherman and together they built a small boat and started to fish together. They shared the fish they caught and cooked them for dinner each night

After some time the fish became scarce. They caught fewer and fewer fish until one day Ta-In caught only one fish and Ta-Na caught nothing at all...

Back on shore Ta-In offered Ta-Na only the tail of the fish, as he caught the fish he wanted to eat the head and the belly all himself. Ta-Na was not happy about this and they started to quarrel. A village elder came to break up the fight and help the two come to a resolution. After some thinking the village elder announced that Ta-In should have the head and Ta-Na should have the tail and the belly he would eat himself. Ta-In and Ta-Na had to agree as there were no better ideas. They were both very sad and realised that they had both been greedy they now they were both loosers.

From that day on they always worked together and helped one another. They shared their haul no matter who caught the most fish.

Lovely!!!

After a quick discussion about Thailand Miss May and her friends got messy with my salad spinner and the end result were these beautiful, colourful fish!!