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Editor's note
When I was preparing this issue of Student Weekly from our new office on the fourth floor of the Bangkok Post Building (well, we couldn't stay on the top floor for too long in case we started to feel too important), I was saddened to read a letter from a foreign reader. This girl felt so badly treated by her Thai school friends that she needed to write a letter to the country's biggest-selling English-language publication for teens. By coincidence, in this issue, we are also running a special education feature on how Thai students can cope with studying at university in the UK.

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Last month, the Media Kid Company invited the Mahasarakham Storytelling Troupe, of which I am a member, to go to speak about Isaan folktales in Chiang Mai. I was very excited to tell stories in front of the meeting. Do you know why? Because all of participants were foreigners. All of them were very nice and they encouraged me to speak English. Whenever I had a problem, the audience went very quiet and paid more attention.