There are 3200 wats or temples in Bangkok. Each owns considerable Land around it which they use for a school and housing. I wandered the area around my teaching site, and it was rougher than where the volunteer house is, with tin roofs, sagging unpainted walls, dirt yards. However in the glimpses I had showed me that no place was too poor not to have a framed portrait of the Queen. And lovely flowers grow wherever they can, regardless of the riches of the houses.
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