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Pattaya Sports Club donates football field to Boys’ Home
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“Alice – The Musical”
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Fun and games at Banglamung School Indoor Sports Day
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Pattaya Sports Club donates football field to Boys’ Home
Suchada Tupchai
Pattaya Sports Club has donated a football field to the
Banglamung Home for Boys, the ceremony being held on June 5 with club
president Gerry Carpenter and Bernie Tuppin, charity chairman of the club,
presiding. Leading the vote of thanks was superintendent of the home
Chamaiporn Metasuth.
PSC
President Gerry Carpenter donates sports uniforms.
The field, which has an area of 35 x 50 metres, was an
unused plot of land. PSC supported its transformation into a playing field,
and laid the grass. Total cost of this modification was 71,000 baht. PSC
also donated football uniforms and equipment.
Presentation day saw several events including a junior
football match, a game for the elder boys, and a tug-of-war, which caused
great amusement amongst the competitors and spectators.
Banglamung Home for Boys was opened on April 13, 1956, funded by
government lottery and designed for children from problem backgrounds, such
as orphans, abandoned children, children wandering far from home,
impoverished children, poverty-stricken families, and children with
behaviour problems. The age range is from seven to 18 years, the children
being under social welfare protection. Accommodation, food, clothes,
medication, counselling and education are provided.

The
senior football team makes good use of the field.

Taking a
photo as a souvenir.

Amusement
from the midget football competitors.

A
tug-of-war competition … Ugh…
“Alice – The Musical”
Sohini Goho
GIS presented the wonderful show, “Alice – The
Musical” in the school auditorium. It was a big event and a lot of hard
work, preparation and practice had gone into the making of the play. It was
brilliantly directed and choreographed by Ms. Abeyawardene with musical
direction from Mr. Thaler.

Alice,
March Hare, Mad Hatter, and Cheshire Cat were not only convincing but their
costumes, too, complimented their performance beautifully.
The beautiful synchronization, coordination and flawless
performance showed perfection, which one can only imagine to be a result of
continuous and regular practice. How the children and the teachers could
manage that, in the midst of their academic curriculum, is a wonder and of
course very creditable on their part.
Alice In Wonderland, I would think, is not an easy play
to conduct theatrically but it was done with a class and style of its own.
The play was well thought out and the scenes blended very well into each
other. The actors connected very well with the audience who in turn felt
like joining in with them while they sang and danced with ease. The music,
costumes and props were brilliant and each detail had been thought out and
incorporated in the play in a very innovative manner.

The
dances by the chorus showed perfect synchronization ... well beyond our
imagination or expectation.
Being a popular story and an all time favourite, it was
thoroughly enjoyed by the audience who were eagerly following the play –
feet tapping in tune with the music – reliving their childhood romance
with Lewis Carroll. The wonder and awe was truly apparent amongst us!
The story revolved around Alice and the amazing
adventures she had in Wonderland when she suddenly follows a white rabbit
down a rabbit hole. Her adventures with the Duchess and her “mad tea
party” were hilarious. Her encounter with the illogical Queen of Hearts
was again beautifully portrayed with humour and music making it all the
more entertaining.
The actors and actresses did full justice to the play.
They were expressive, totally confident and great singers! The dances by
the chorus showed perfect synchronization and on the whole the students
showed professionalism well beyond our imagination or expectation. Alice,
March Hare, Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, etc., were not only convincing but
their costumes, too, complimented their performance beautifully.
The seating arrangements and ushering in of the guests
was very well organized and in turn the audience played their part well by
adhering to the requests of switching off their mobiles and not moving
about while the play was in progress. Personally, I do wish the auditorium
was more packed with parents and guests – the least we can do to
encourage these truly talented students who put in a performance well
beyond what we expected and made us look upon them with pride.
We knew they were good when we went in for the show but we came out
realizing what the word “perfection” stood for! And the credit for this
goes not only to the children but also to the person who having understood
their potential brought out the best in them – Ms. Abeyawardene. Since we
have now got a taste of it, we look forward to more of such brilliant
musical evenings at GIS!
Fun and games at Banglamung School Indoor Sports Day
Peter Richards
Sports or games days are always a great time for children
and their parents, whether the event is held indoors or outdoors. Banglamung
School No 2, out near the district police station, recently held its indoor
sports and games day within the large school hall, as the weather was too
hot for any strenuous outdoor activity.
But it is not only the children that participate, because
parents and friends also join in and have a fun day as “cheer squad”
teams, assistants and doing whatever else needs to be done on the day.

This
cheer and dance squad gave a good performance.
The Banglamung School event was very well organised, with
large quantities of food laid out on long tables to feed the hungry masses
of students and their supporters.
The games were declared open by Mayor Niran
Wattanasartsathorn. Apart from the official stage, there were three separate
spectator stands for the different competitive teams and put to good use by
the cheer squads, dressed in their colourful uniforms and hats. The squads
attracted a fair amount of attention and applause themselves, with their
cheerleader and small groups performing some very lively dancing and
cheering routines.
There were some pretty novel games, such as lines of kids
sitting one behind the other on the ground, and bouncing their way to the
finishing line - the first “butt” across the line is declared the
winning team.
These events are socially educational for students, and everyone learns
first-hand about the spirit of competition, fair play, and the friendship
gained by helping each other create things together. And they are also
entertaining and good fun into the bargain!
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