It’s
Thursday evening 10.00pm and a large truck has turned up outside with 9 men on
board. They brought some vegetables and
some of the ladies are preparing a meal for them. They will erect the stage in the morning for
music and dancing all day. I asked
where they will sleep and was told that they had enough Thai whisky to sleep
anywhere.
Toilet
facilities are a bit of a concern (to me, nobody else would worry) the output
from the toilet goes into an underground earthenware container with an overflow
into the ground (I think). A few days
ago Tau told me that it was full and somebody was supposed to come today to
pump it out but never turned up. Too
late now but I don’t know how it will cope with several hundred people.
The band
and dancers and singers etc for tomorrow cost me 16,000 baht which is about
$550 amazingly cheap.
We now have
a small marquee outside the house and tarpaulins everywhere to keep the sun
out. There are mountains of vegetables
and beer, soft drinks etc. We have
chairs from the temple and trestle tables set up and of course balloons. The outside kitchen area has been extended
and cordoned off with mats. There are
several charcoal burners, sacks of charcoal and big cooking pots all waiting
for tomorrow.
Earlier
there was the sound of howling dogs and Waree told me that her father, brother
and friends had gone to kill the buffalo (that would have been at about 8pm). She
said that the dogs howl due to the number of people leaving the village for the
farm for the kill and because they know why they are going. They hit the buffalo on the head with
something and cut its throat. They save
the blood for eating.
Since I won’t
be able to see Waree in the morning our friend Au who speaks some English is
going to look after me. It’s really
difficult as nobody speaks English and I haven’t got a clue what to do most of
the time. Ah well we will find out
tomorrow.
The truck
with the men on board who have been killing the buffalo just arrived back
followed by Joi’s 4 wheel mini tractor towing a trailer with the carcass. Its 11 pm and there must be 50 people outside
the house milling around while the meat is brought in.
Waree has
just told me some of the people come to eat fresh meat especially the liver
which they eat raw with chili while it is still warm.
Fresh water buffalo meat
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