SELKET GUZMAN (ALL)
Surin Jaitrong bathes his elephant Plai Gaew every day.
“This is what I have to do,” Jaitrong said. “You let everything go. Your mind becomes clear. No adjusting is needed.”
“It remembers you by your smell and by your tone
of voice,” Surin Jaitrong told Selket Guzman, who graduated from Carolina in 2007 with a degree in journalism. Jaitrong says his elephant “will know instantly if a foreigner is a good person.” Guzman’s story is titled My Elephant, My Brother. “Elephants stand out, look regal and intelligent,” Jaitrong said. “They are enchanted creatures. They are our family and we must protect our family always.”
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