1. NEWSLETTER
A FESTIVAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

2. GOAL / PURPOSE
Attract Attention
Provide Information
Draw tourists to this festival
Encourage tourists to stay
longer

3. CONTENTS
Title of newsletter (Festival’s Name)
Location (country/ province)
Time and duration
Who participates?
Purpose and historical significance of
the festival

4. CONTENTS
Activities
Contact Details
Additional Information
Your name, Cultural Geography
of Southeast Asia, Distance
Education between Sa-nguan Ying
School and Lodi High School,
your picture, references

5. ASSESSMENTS (60 POINTS)
Coverage of the topics (20)
Use of images, color, format (10)
Use of font and size (5)
Organization, Layout and Design (10)
Grammar and Vocabulary (5)
Accuracy & sufficiency of information (10)

6. M O N T H LY N E W S L E T T E R
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Pay Respect to Buddha
Many Thai people celebrate
Songkran by visiting Buddhist
temple (wat) to pay respect to
Buddha and to give alms to
Buddhist monks. People also clean
Buddha images in the temple by
SPLASHING WITH E L E P H A N TgS gently pouring water on them.
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Water Fight
You could not afford to miss the ‘Songkran’ or ‘Water
Join in this extremely fun
Festival’ of Thailand in April. It’s a summer of 95 activity of splashing strangers on
degrees and it’s time to get soaking WET! the streets with water all in spirit of
good fun. Warning: Don’t forget to
bring your own water gun!!
Have fun in the water festival Sand Chedi
S ongkran Festival, also,
known as Thailand Water
Festival, is the most
important festival for Thai people.
Songkran Water Fights
Songkran Festival is very closely
associated with water. Originally,
Practice your creativity on this sand
chedi competition in Songkran
Festival. The winner will receive a
people gently poured water onto the free meal at one of the best Thai
Celebrated as the traditional Thai
hands of elders and family to give restaurants in town!
New Year, Thai people sprinkle water
good fortune. Now it has evolved to
on the elders in show of respect and Thai Children’s Games
splashing strangers on the streets
pay respect to Buddha images.
with water, either with a water gun
Thai National Holiday or a bucket of water, all in the spirit Enjoy playing ‘Morn Sorn Pha’ or
‘Hiding a cloth’ game with Thai
Songkran 2012 is the most important of good fun.
children. ‘Re Re Khao Sarn’ is
festival for Thais and is a Thai
national holiday. While the official During the afternoon of the 13th, another
n a t i o n a l Buddha images are bathed as part game you
Wai: Thai Greeting holiday is of the ceremony. Young people pour may want to
for 3 days, scented water into the hands of spend your
from the elders and parents as a mark of time with.
13th to respect while seeking the blessing
15th April. of the older people. In ancient days, Cultural Dance
The people old people were actually given a
can have up bath and clothed in Participate in elegant Thai Dance or
to a week new apparel "Fawn Thai”. Thai Dance was
presented by the originally an art performed for the
off.
young folks as a royal courts of old Siam.
token of respect for