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Baitchai for children

February 18, 2010

The children in our village celebrated Baitchai again this year. They made as much noise as possible at each house until the owner of the house gave them money or candy to go away. :) There weren’t as many participants this year as in the years past due to Baitchai falling on a school break. [...]

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Baitchai des enfants

February 25, 2009

The Baitchai for the children was a success. The kids were too cute walking around the village banging on pots, drums and tooting on horns as they stopped at one house after another to collect offerings of candy or money. Afterwards, the kids got to eat hot dogs and french fries at one of the [...]

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Baitchai for the children

February 5, 2008

The children ran to the door of the house making as much noise as they could until the owner of each house opened the door to give them donations of candy, chocolate, cookies and money. If no one was home the children would check the mailbox to see if there were any goodies left for [...]

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Beauty sleep

February 5, 2008

The Baitchai didn’t keep me up all night. I heard them begin at 10 p.m. sharp. I went to bed soon after. I wasn’t woken up until at around 5:30 a.m. as they walked down our street. I have to clear up the fact that even if the word Baitchai means the sound of a [...]

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Night of the Baitchai

February 4, 2008

Our village will be assaulted by the Baitchai tonight. Starting at around 10 p.m. men and women dressed in white will parade through the streets of our village playing musical instruments, banging on pots and pans or whatever else they are inspired by. Basically the goal is to make as much noise as humanly possible [...]

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