My podcast "Thai New Year"

Hello Hello Everyone, and welcome to my podcast "Thai New Year"My name is Thassanee Kerdrien and my podcast's name "Thai New Year"and it review some of my favorite activities in Thailand and today I will be reviewing the famous activitie "Rod Num Dom Hoa" It's the name one of the activities . Did you know that we have the apecific name for Thai New Year that's call "Song Kran". It's one of Thai festival lot of fun and lot of traveler come and visit this festival.So,now! I'm going to tell you more about Song Krann,So please listen up!

Hi Everyone,

Back to my podcast Thai New Year! Thai New Year or Song Kran is the big festival in Thailand. Most of Thai people would like to celebrate it with their family. It will be in April 12-14 in every year. It's the most important for Thai people to spend time with family because it's a big holiday and everyone will have stay home and enjoy the time and go eat out but some family will go to different places for the whole holiday. The most obvious celebration of Songkran is the throwing of water upon others. Thais roam the streets with containers of water or water guns. In addition, many Thais will have small bowls of beige colored sold cheaply and mixed with water which is then smeared on the faces and bodies of random passersby as a blessing for the new year. City officials close off many sections of the street thoroughfares for the festival disallowing all vehicular traffic save for ice trucks and fire engines which also partake in the watering festivities.  It is very common to have groups of Thais post themselves at the side of roads or corners of intersections with garden hoses or large new plastic trash cans filled with water (typically ice cold) that is used to drench sidewalkers and random vehicles (taxis, cars, motorcycles, tuk tuks) that come within watering range. This sort of festivity, however, was not always the main activity of this festival. Songkran is traditionally a time to visit and pay respects to elders, including family members, friends, neighbors, and monks. The songkran festival is counted as a new life festivity in which many around the world take part in, but mostly focused in the country of Thailand.

Besides the throwing of water, people celebrating Songkran as a Buddhist festival may also go to a temple to pray and give food to monks. They may also cleanse buddha images from household shrines as well as Buddha images at monasteries by gently pouring water mixed with a Thai fragrance over them. It is believed that doing this will bring good luck and prosperity for the New Year. In many cities, such as Chiang Mai , the Buddha images from all of the city's important monasteries are paraded through the streets so that people can toss water at them. In northern Thailand, people may carry handfuls of sand to their neighborhood monastery in order to recompense the dirt that they have carried away on their feet during the rest of the year. The sand is then sculpted intoground thand decorated with colorful flags.Some people make New Year resolutions - to refrain from bad behavior, or to do good things. Songkran is a time for cleaning and renewal. Besides washing household Buddha images, many Thais also take this opportunity to give their home a thorough cleaning. They believe that cleaning mean welcome the new good things for the next year.

"That's all for today. I hope you will enjoy my podcast and like it and want to go to Thailad for celebrating the Thai New Year! Thanks for listening everyone",and stay tuned for next podcast!!