Peace and Quiet
Posted by Stuart at 01:34 PM on February 03, 2003
I was very relieved to see that the campus was nice and peaceful when I arrived today. The past week has been graduation week, and the open spaces have been packed with students in graduation gowns having their picture taken.
It really was quite a scene. Different days would host different majors with different colored robes. So each person who was graduating would have one day to dress up, put on lots of makeup (boys and girls), bring the entire extended family and all their friends each of whom were toting a camera with a huge telephoto lens. I have been to some of the biggest tourist places in the world (Effiel Tower, Disney World, Angkor Wat) and I have never seen so many pictures being taken at one time with so many big cameras.
When I was younger and visited Disney World with friends, we would play a game to see how many tourists' pictures we could be in. If we saw someone taking a picture we would run to try to get in the background. This time, however, I was just trying to walk from the street to my building but I am sure after this week my face will be included in the backgrounds of graduation pictures all over Bangkok.
