I have a few photo’s that show the stages of rice planting. If you want an informative and educational experience just click here FLICKR and enjoy. When you get to the sets, click on the detail view. Be sure to click on the photos to get the detailed notes.
I was looking for an activity for our FHE since we are incharge tomorrow and I came upon a site that you all should try. Just go to FHE and it lists 116 activities but also provides links to a lot of other games and activities. Check it out!
This is New Year’s Eve - If you think they are having fun here you should go to FLICKR and see what trouble they get into on New Year’s day! You will even get to see a close-up of the ‘nice’ footwear.
Above is one of my great Assets showing love, kindness and concern to the children of Lao. Go to my photos on Flickr to see the rest of my wonderful assets! Note - the comments are not exclusive to the one written about. All those mentioned could have every comment written about them also. (Be sure to go to the second page of photos).
I wanted to show you a little of the process for the preparation for a dinner which feed about 80 people. Please click here to go to Flikr and go through the photo set. Note the notes on some of the photos. I think it will be fun.
This is our Branch President, Khamphee, and his wife. If you want to meet more of our Branch family go to Flickr and see the photos. Be sure to read our comments for each picture and enlarge them because some of them have notes. Just pass the curser over the picture once you enlarge it.
Kim forced the ginger-bread house tradition to migrate to Lao and we thank her for that. Above is the result! We would like to see your ginger-bread houses!! Merry Christmas to all!
Mrs. Clause and Santa arrive at the school with their ’sleigh’ in tow. We are greated warmly by all the children. Then there is a bit of welcoming. Notice all the decorations, handmade by the children. The Santa faces and if you look closely you can see all their little ‘jingerbread’ houses made out of the Lao version of the soda craker. The kids entertained us by playing vareous Christmas songs by watching their teacher who had color coded the musical instrament. At one point all the kids sang us some Christmas songs. Then it was time for presents. Santa handed each one there special present which the parents had helped Santa to obtain. Then Santa gives Margo (our former Thai missionary who translates for us at the Branch - she is a teacher at the school) a big hug while Mrs. Clause stands by. Then it is one more photo op and Santa rushes off to his next assignment.
We went to two falls. These are some of the pictures of those falls. At one of the falls we went swimming. I think I sent the last two via email.
The first three pictures is just to give you an idea as to the mountains we found in Northern Lao. They are so steep and rugged and covered with vegitation. A lot of Lao live in them and how they manage those steep mountains I do not know.
The 4th picture shows a typical house in the moutains. They are right along the highway but there is not enough flat space so the back of the homes are supported by long poles. The 5th is a typical village house down in the valley. The 6th is our first elephant we have seen in Lao. It is a working elephant. All of those logs were pulled out of the underbrush by the elephant.
The 7th is a typical garden along the Mekong River. During the rainy season the river is clear up to the top of that garden. Then as it goes down it leaves furtal ground for the garden. The people will then go to the river with buckets to water the garden. The next is a market at one of the major intersections along highway 13, up in the mountains. The last is women out in the rice fields threshing the rice by hand. As they cut the rice (by hand) they bundel it is small bundels, let it dry and then beat it on the ground to get the rice out.
I will send pictures of our playing during that trip on the next blog. So stay tuned folks.
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