SAILers on their weekend excursion, having lunch on a raft on the Nam Ngum River.

Week four is almost coming to a close and it feels like it’s gone by so quickly! Last night my cousins and I went to a place in the city called Lao ITECC where this huge concert is supposed to take place. But, unfortunately, it rained and because the artists didn’t feel like becoming electrified, it was delayed until tonight. Otherwise the whole group of us explored around the convention inside and checked out all the products that different companies where offering. It was a lot of fun!

Next week the group is going to head out to Khon Kaen to attend the Lao studies conference and I’m pretty psyched to see what’s going to happen soon.  We have to work on a presentation and so we are all pretty busy at work with that.

Buying groceries in Muong Lao is a dream come true! I can’t believe I bought enough groceries to make a meal for less than $3.00. I also happened to do a little bargaining, although I always feel bad but that’s just one of the ways of life here. I’m also intending to take a Lao cooking class too because I love eating and I feel that by eating and making the foods of Lao cuisine I can still have a deep connection with this place post SAIL.

Currently, I’m trying to master singing two Lao songs before the end of this summer and its really hard to remember all of these different words and also that in written Lao there is no such thing as spacing so it’s still difficult but I’m still in the game to keep trying.

I apologize for not putting up pictures but the internet here is so slow that I could take a nap and the computer would still be trying to upload a photo.

As of now unfortunately it is raining at the wrong moment which means I won’t be able to go to the concert tonight. But I am looking forward to going to prepare dinner for my cousins and I. Tonight’s special: Red Curry Chicken! Mhmmm!