I apologize for the lack of blogging.  I implore you to see it from my POV: I have traveled half way across the globe and my time here is limited.  I want to make the best of my time here and not spend it sitting in an Internet Cafe.

We had our trip to Luang Prabang last week.  It was very fun. However, I can live without the 9 hour bus ride. The mountains were beautiful though. On our way back I had a chance to sit with a Hmong gentlemen the same age as me who was on his way to Vientiene.  His family has a farm near Luang Prabang. We chatted a lot about Lao, Luang Prabang, and farming here vs the US.  It was a good time.  He said my Lao was very good for having only been studying for 4 weeks.  He has been studying English for about 6 months now, and wasn’t very confident in his skills.  His vocabulary was quite wide, however it was hard to understand him at times.

We did just about all you could do while we were in Luang Prabang.  We took a boat to the Bhudda cave (Tham Thing), a Lao Lao village, and That Kouang Si (which was beautiful). We also road bikes to a village where they make mulberry paper, and make silks/sinh.  Jeow Bong in Luang Prabang is delicious.  There were A LOT of foreigners there. I’m still not sure how I feel about that.

Our U-grad friends have already started to leave.  Many of us have already made plans to visit the ones who will be studying near where we each live.