'GROW UP, CAN'T you?' Sammie asked her brother for the tenth time that morning.
'I enjoy playing. What's wrong with that?' Phet answered.
Songkran, the Thai New Year, is celebrated from April 13th to 15th. Songkran is the Sanskrit word meaning passing or approaching. Buddha images were passing and approaching. A parade of trucks laden with enormous statues, all shielded by local beauty queens, drove along the road. All that bored Phet. He loved the fun bit—the water festival, where everyone got drenched.
He went to fetch the hotel's hose. Today was 'Songkran Day', the annual Thai celebration. Phet was happy; the country's most fun-filled water festival had begun. The celebration kicked off, to Phet's mind, dour and dull. Family members washed their elders' feet...

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