Cows (by Jack) & Christmas 2008 (by Eliot)

Cows in Thailand

“Oom,” yelled Jack Gargan as the cows pass by. “She’s my favorite. She comes when I call her.” “Oom,” he yelled again.” Finally Oom, a beautiful cow, changed direction from the stream of cows and headed towards Jack. “Oom,” he yelled again and she followed the sound of her name. Oom came to the painted steel fence as all the other cows passed by to the feeding area.

Oom had mostly a gray color, but a beautiful orange color between the horns and some on the hind legs. No question also, she had 2 foot long ears.

Now the second time I saw the cows go past Jack said ,”Oh, here comes Oom.” Oom stopped and Jack said “You come to get your picture taken?” As Oom walked on, Jack said, “Where’s Namphu? Oh, here she comes. Namphu, I see you,” as a younger cow approached, the granddaughter of Boya Boon, a famous cow in Thailand. She was a younger cow than Oom, without horns, but she only had 1 1/2 foot ears and was a beautiful white color.

We (Mom, Eliot and I) were sitting on the bed lounging, when Ainsley ran in the door saying, “They have a new cow!” “No way,” said mom.

A little later we were walking out to see New, the new calf. We had to walk all the way across the rice fields with the remains of plants, almost like hay. When we reached the calf it was less than one hour old. The calf was sitting with shorter ears than prized cows (Nampu), but a white body (that was wet). A little later the calf finally stood and went on a mission to find the udder. Two things I thought were cool, the afterbirth and the umbilical cord. The calf was a little bit taller than most calfs so she took a very long time to find the udder, so I did not see the first drink.

Thailand has cows for pets. How would you feel? Moo!

Jack

Christmas 2008

Koh Phagnan, Thailand

It is Christmas Eve and my mom said to me, “Don’t get mad if you do not get any presents that you want because you are only going to get small presents.” So, we had just a regular, relaxing day there. We brushed our teeth as usual, and got ready for bed. So, the next morning, I woke up, nobody was awake and it was dark in the room. It felt like I waited for an hour before somebody woke up, and that was Jack. We had to wait another hour until another person woke up, and we just waited until a parent woke up. Then we all got out of bed and we opened our presents. A surprising thing is that my brother and I have always been wishing for a Nintendo DS and Santa put all of the presents at the end of our beds and my brother and I each found a Nintendo DS!

P.S. My sister hasn’t wished for any electronic, but at the end of her bed, she found laying there an ipod touch!

Eliot