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Everyone is sitting down and listening to the monks chanting, but some kids are playing. They are tired and bored (I think because I was too). They have to sit still for 10 or 15 minutes listening to the monks. The words they are chanting are not Thai. I think it is Pali language. This is an old language. Lots of people don't understand what it means, but we still have to listen to it. When we grow up, we will know most of these words because the teacher teach us at school and we have to learn it.

My mum is giving some food to the monks by putting it on the cloth. She can't give to him hand to hand because she's a woman. Monks are not allow to touch women. Person on the right, dressed in white, is a nun. She is living in the same temple but not in the same area!

My mum and my grandmum are pouring water into a cup. Can you see my mum's hands, she is touching my grandmum to get some of the merit. This is called "Kruat Nam" in Thai. The reason they do it, is because they want to share some of the merit with dead people.