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Song reunites Thai bus woman with family

A Thai woman who was lost for 25 years after catching the wrong bus home
was finally reunited with her family thanks to simple song.

The last time Jaeyaena Beuraheng saw her seven children was in 1982 when
she left the southern Thailand province of Narathiwat on one of her
regular shopping trips across the nearby border with Malaysia.

She disappeared, and police later told her family that she had
apparently been killed in a traffic accident.

In fact, Jaeyaena had simply taken the wrong bus home - an error that
would have been easy to fix except that she only speaks the local
dialect of Malay known as Yawi, according to officials at the homeless
shelter where the 76-year-old has lived for two decades.

On her way back from Malaysia, she mistakenly hopped on a bus to
Bangkok, some 1,150km north of her home in Narathiwat province.

Unable to read Thai and speaking a language few Thais can understand,
she again took a wrong bus, this time to Chiang Mai, another 700km
further north.

There she ended up as a beggar for five years, until she was finally
sent to a homeless shelter in the central Thai province of Phitsanulok
in 1987.

An official at the shelter said she was known as "Auntie Mon" because
her speech sounded similar to the language of ethnic Mon living along
the border with Burma.

But still no one could understand her, until last week when three health
students from Narathiwat arrived on an exchange program to research the
problem of homelessness at the shelter.

She sang a song for the visitors, one that the staff at the shelter had
often heard but never understood.

"She sang her same old song, one that nobody could understand until
those three students from Narathiwat told us that she was singing in
Yawi, a Malay dialect," the official said.

"So we asked them to talk to her and find out if she had relatives," the
official said.

Jaeyaena told the students that she had a Malaysian husband and seven
children, recounting her entire story of the bus and how she had become
lost in northern Thailand.

Her shocked family sent her youngest son and her eldest daughter to meet
her and bring her home on Tuesday, the official said.

"She remembered all of her children's names. But at first she couldn't
recognise her youngest son, but she recognised her eldest daughter,"
said the official, who was at their reunion.

Her children have taken her back to their family home in Dusongyo (Dusun
Nyuir) village, in a remote corner of Narathiwat.

The village chief said she had arrived home yesterday, some 25 years
after she left to go shopping.

*Source asal : AFP*