Lao Voices

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Lao movie about bird flu, produced by Lao Art Media and directed by Anousone Sirisackda.
Part 13

For a foreigner to Laos, finding strange creatures at a local market can be quite an adventure. For the local people, food is food. It seems there is an unspoken norm in Laos and many countries in Asia that “anything that moves is edible” and you can see the evidence of this at the local [...]

Friday pinic at Pa Suam. If you have never been there, please make time for it. The best place to hang out with your family and friends. Check out the waterfalls.

Breakfast:
One cup light soy milk
Lunch:
Stir fry noodles (wide noodles) with shrimp
Dim Sum
Green tea

Dinner:
Green papaya salad with wing beans
Rooibos tea

Lao movie about bird flu, produced by Lao Art Media and directed by Anousone Sirisackda.
Part 10

This little play area in Pakse city is located near a busy intersection (on the right side) and opposite of Wat Louang.

Breakfast:
One cup light soy milk
Lunch:
Tum ruba with string beans
Lemon grass tea

Dinner:
Phun mussels
Rooibos honey tea

As I was talking to my co-workers, two that have children attending college this year and realize that they were not prepared as far as how they would pay for their son’s and daughter’s college education. This really surprised me, and both had to borrow money from their 401k, which they don’t have a [...]

When I went to visit Wat Louang in Pakse the second time, I found out they were building a new Champasak Sangha College right behind the current building. If you are every in the area, please visit Wat Louang and see if you can help with the project or just to check out the beautiful [...]

Labels, are they important? Is it important to distinct that an Orca is a marine mammal and not a fish? Both fishes and Orca’s swim in the sea, eat other sea animals and generally move in the same manner; what is the difference? Does that difference matters? To zoologists it matters.
Is a spider an insect? [...]

Lao Heritage Foundation Light Festival, Wishing Dance.

Breakfast:
One glass of light soy milk
Lunch:
Egg sandwich
Lemon grass green tea
Dinner:
BBQ chicken
Lao cucumber salad
Steamed brown rice
Rooibos tea