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.
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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.
We hope that the Chicken Pox doesn’t ruin your Christmas and that you still have a great time. I’m sure that Santa will still find you and you can have fun with Mom and Dad and Chase! MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL Grandma and Grandpa
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.
We spent a day and half visiting 11 schools to get final aproval to drill water wells and build toilets. What an exercise you have to go through to give them something. These are the pictures.
The first picture is of a typical school directors office. Not too elaborate. You go into their offices and find no office equipment, no filing cabinets and very few shelves that are mainly empty. The next is a classroom in a school funded by Japan. They are really nice as you can see. The next picture is the more typical classroom out in the villages. They need some help.
The next three pictures go together. Outside of one of the schools was a coconut tree. Out comes one of the teachers, kicks off his sandles and climbs up the tree. Down comes some green coconuts. The next picture shows another teacher cutting off the top down to a little hole which they put a straw into. The next shows the final product.
The next picture shows our lunch being cooked. This was Thanksgiving day and this is our first Thanksgiving day dinner. The next shows all that is left once we are done. You can see what is left of the fish, the rice, the chicken (if the picture was better you could see a chicken’s foot on the plate), a soup that was really good that you put over the rice, bannanas and papia. The last is of a water buffalo cooling itself off near one of the schools.
Hope your dinner is a heck of a lot better than this one! We will think of all of you and send all our love to every one! Have a great day!
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