{"id":25535,"date":"2017-12-26T07:06:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T23:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=25535"},"modified":"2017-12-27T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T02:27:06","slug":"phuket-2017-a-childs-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2017\/12\/26\/phuket-2017-a-childs-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Phuket 2017 \u2013 A Child\u2019s Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing we started during our Western Australia trip in June was to get our girl to keep a journal of things she sees and experience everyday. I reckon I’ll have to do something similar for Peter on our next vacation – even if I don’t think he can manage writing in six months time, he should at least want to draw something out.<\/p>\n

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Hannah writing her journal on Day 5 @ Sino House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some changes to her journal, taking on board observations we made from the June experience:<\/p>\n

Lines to guide her handwriting. It gets progressively worse!<\/p>\n

More guidance: rather than just leave space for her to write, her improved journal now includes questions we ask her.<\/p>\n

Portrait rather than landscape mode. It’s easier for her to write a document in portrait mode – I think!<\/p>\n

And these are selected comments, right from the horse’s mouth.<\/p>\n

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We thought the bioluminescent plankton was really special too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sadly, there are really that few elephants left in Thailand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mommy had supervising duties for H this time, and they had a lot more fun than I did with Peter LOL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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H rated Cassia Phuket 4.5 stars, but doesn’t know why she’s deducting 0.5 stars for LOL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yep, we thought it was over-priced.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next – and last post in our Phuket Dec 2017 series – on the overall trip<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing we started during our Western Australia trip in June was to get our girl to keep a journal of things she sees and experience everyday. I reckon I’ll have to do something similar for Peter on our next<\/p>\n

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