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Santa in the BullsEye

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santareadyIn line with saying ‘yes’ to virtually any realistic request or suggestion, I agreed to play Santa Clause to a group of 30 Japanese pre-school kids here in Thailand. Many of these children were born here, to parents who are either retired Japanese who have started new families abroad, or who work for a Japanese company and won’t be transferred back to Japan for another year (or several).

The purpose of the Japanese school is to make sure the kids are exposed to the full range of their home culture and language. But they also introduce lots of other cultural influences to give the children a highly enriched range of experiences.

And so they asked me to play Santa for these kids.

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Below we see Santa calming his mind with his daily meditations.

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And after the kids have received their presents, they line up for a class picture.

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The presents trigger the usual variety of responses – growling, scowling, nose picking and introspection.

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All in all, it was a terrific half hour, and Santa may have enjoyed it even more than the children did.

Cheers from warm and smiling Thailand,
Charles

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Posted by on Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 1:45 pm 
Filed under Relationships · Tagged with culture, japanese, language, pre-school kids, santa, thailand

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5 Responses to “Santa in the BullsEye”
  1. Jeff Kuhn says:
    December 17, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    HO HO HO, You go santa ;-)

  2. peter murphy says:
    December 20, 2009 at 1:22 am

    Looks like you were lucky to not get attacked. I hope you had elves for security.

    Yes, we definitely had undercover elves standing guard – they stayed mostly off camera. Since the elves are pretty small, they had to be disguised as kids. Way to tell which ones are elves is to check their feet. They’re the ones with the big honking feet. They also tended to pick their noses a lot. Up the nose is where they hid their 2-way radios. To transmit, they had to stick a finger up there and press the talk switch. All part of the disguise, I’m told.

  3. Susan says:
    December 20, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    Absolutely roaring over these! Hahahahaha! Made MY Christmas!

  4. Mark McClure says:
    December 20, 2009 at 8:38 pm

    Is that an air-conditioned Santa suit for hot and sticky Thailand? ;-)

    Unfortunately, there wasn’t any air conditioning. This was a low budget gig, and the best they could do was, the guitarist kept yelling, “Cool, Santa, cool.”

  5. Charlie says:
    December 23, 2009 at 9:00 am

    You mean, you never were roped into doing this gig during your years in Japan?
    After complaining and resisting, whenever I “become Santa” I have an experience like yours:
    Enjoying it much more than the kids!

    Happy Holidays to you and yours, Charles.

    Believe it or not, during my twenty-plus years in Japan the subject never even came up. On the other hand, there still exist numerous photos of me at a series of Halloween costume parties. One year I threatened to come in drag as a blues singer, complete with low cut blouse and daringly slit skirt, but backed out when everybody seemed to like the idea. I think that was the year I wore a solid black robe and cowl, with red LEDs for eyes. I went as Death Warmed Over.