SAILers visiting the National University of Laos (NUOL) at Dong Dok.

On Friday, Yaeng and I took the last 20 minutes out of our Lao Language class to go to the Buddha Park. But now the only thing is that they ran out of paper with the number I got from doing the fortune sticks.

Going to the Buddha Park, Yaeng and I had a lot of fun. On the tuktuk ride there, we saw many monks on bikes with a younger monk in the back… I don’t know why we were so interested and why we acted like it was the most unusual thing but it COULD be because we just don’t see many monks back home riding bikes – nonetheless even around. Yeah I know they’re people too and have lives, it was just hmm… how do I say it? just different. The funniest part was that we actually started counting how many we saw on the ride because there was nothing else to do. Going back, Yaeng went “Hey look, there’s another one. wait… he’s blond.” That was our first non-Asian monk in Laos!

Okii so, There’s this really funny story Yaeng wants me to blog about so I guess I’ll do it. Goodness, so embarrassing:

At Buddha Park I noticed a couple things I didn’t notice the first time we were there (and I also noticed I forgot to walk through the second half of the park after getting my coconut juice with Samantha the first time too). After half an hour in the sun, Yaeng and I figured we were going to turn into raisins if we didn’t head back, so we hopped back on the tuktuk. The driver was nice enough to give us a good price for a round trip too. 130,000kip (about $15) and he waited for us!  Coming back was really cool too. We passed by the Suan Watannatam (Cultural Ethnic Park) and we tried to read the sign like always, and the driver said “Do you want to go in and see?’ All i could think of was “Yes! Let’s kill 2 birds with one stone!’ It was really neat, and I found another 2 places to get the Fortune Sticks and I went crazy and went through all 5 areas. Yaeng must’ve felt so embarrassed to be with me. How fun.