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earned about Thai history and the architecture of Sukhothai people. I also learned that the Wat Mahathat temple is the biggest temple in Sukhothai and is known as UNESCO world heritage site. On this trip, I developed communication skills because I need to communicate and cooperate with my group members. By having I&S and Thai written in 1 brochure, it helped me to understand things better. One benefit of learning through an IDU is that we get to experience real things. For example, real life situations and real life experiences. I think that being able to go in and actually touch and experience things by myself is a really good way to understand better. By actually going to a temple and getting to see a temple really helped me see the art of Sukhothai.
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I think that a limitation is that while we were in the Museum or Historical Park, some information written on the signs or spoken by people was a bit limited and we did not get that much information about the artifacts or the things we were going to write about.
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By: Angie
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irst of all, when we got to Sukhothai we went to the hotel which was beautiful, it had the aesthetics of an ancient ruins with a sand toned stone wall. On the first day, we got to the function room and had team-building activities, mindfulness activities, swimming, dancing, and playing board games. On the second day in Sukhothai we went bike riding to a few temples which included Wat Mahathat, Wat Tra Phang Ngoen, Wat Sa Si Sawai, and Wat Sri Chum. Each temple was created by different cultural architectures like the Burmese, Cambodians and Thai. The third day, we went to make ceramic cups and we made mobile fish. First we made fish out of two banana leaves, then we painted our ceramic cups and they heated it and shipped it to our school. Afterwards, we went to a museum which simply recorded and kept all the ancient artifacts. On the fourth day, we went to somewhere near the airport which is the farm! At first we went to where the farmers planted their orchids. The orchids were HUGE! Then we went to where the farmers eliminated the rotten rice. We got a scenic tour through the farm! We had also collected the duck eggs. There were so much, the guide gave us baskets to take the eggs. In pairs we took pictures on the buffalos. Personally I have never rode a buffalo before so the experience is amazing! Finally, the messiest part was we were planting rice into the mud for them to grow! It was really messy but lunch was amazing! It was super delicious. Finally, we went back to Bangkok and that summarises the trip to Sukhothai!
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I wished we stayed longer.
WWW was very fun. There were a lot of activities.
I had a fun time playing board games with my friends.
The food was different every day. My favourite part of the WWW is that the food is super good. I got to spend time out of school. The party is so fun. Hanging out with the people that I like. I really like my team leaders. They were very funny and interesting. I really enjoy the bus ride because the conversations we had in there is very funny.
I really like when we bike to each stations.
The highlight was biking at Sukhothai Historical Park.
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I liked playing at the farm with rice planting and animals.
I like food. I like sleeping.
I really enjoy being with my friends and doing activities with my friends. I like to go to the talking Buddha.
I like taking photos of the views and taking selfie/wefie with my friends. I really enjoyed it when we have the Just Dance on the last day. We get to sing and dance. It was fun.