English Crazy Crews at the Human Rights Festival

1-3 April 2009

It was called “Human Rights Festival in Isaan Region #1. This event was to bring together Isaan universities students and American CIEE students for a strong network, co-working for better understanding and solutions of Human Rights in Isaan area. The place where the event took place sounds very familiar. It is where the English Crazy crews’ memorable time was once inscribed—Tai Baan Research Centre—since they worked as interpreters for Australian Sydney University students under the dam construction issue last year.

This time, Aom, A, Cherm, T, Jan, Ying, Namwan, Fah, Eve, Bobbie and Geng, were trying their best to complete this challenging mission. Specially, Jan Ikeda, a UBU’s Japanese teacher, was very interested and joined the first of the festival excitedly.

The first day began with our deeply long sigh. Our attempt to work as communication facilitators, conveying between Thai friends’ and CIEE friends’ ideas, thoughts, opinions, was going along with our struggles. It challengingly tested our abilities and gratefully gave us accumulative experiences at the same time. However, we shall call it “a great opportunity” of us to learn another field—Human Rights—and profoundly see miserable lives of Isaan people apart from our beloved Teaching English. More than that, it was another fun time of us.

It was not only our fat chance to learn, but also to exchange culture with the CIEE students. They have leant Morlum from Isaan villagers and we have learnt a very beautiful and wonderful dancing called “Contra Dance”. We will (prpbably) show you guys later at the camp.

Hey! Anywhere and anytime we can be crazy. There, we showed our “Crazy Grand Show crazily. Remember? It’s about a Yes No OK Thank you role-play. There, a star was found crazily shining. None dares to refuse that Eve can be E-Wueng in the grand show and she did it the best. We do not know whether she would call it a good or bad luck, but she already a chosen one.

English Crazy Club now has welcomed a new UBU's friend club, called " Puen Wan Suk" or Friends of happy day. It is a one-year old club, founded by Faculty of Laws' students. We believe that those of the two clubbers can hold hands and make a different thing in a small part of the big world altogether.

More than thank you to you guys

for your bang up job and

see you again next crazy event.

--Geng--