Bamboo Hunt

I leave in less than 2 weeks!! I am so excited to go home and see Noah, Brayden, family and friends. . . but I'll sure miss lots of stuff about Laos. But it's only for two months and I'll be back! :)

This weekend 4 students and I went to another student's house a little bit outside of Vientiane. It was fun! And I love these students!! :)

They love taking photos! The 2 boys on the left are my students and the girl is also my student.

Many pictures!

We ate some steamed frogs for lunch. Not my fave. If they were fried, they would be OK, anything fried is OK to eat. Steamed is not the best. . .

We went hunting for bamboo out in the forest. The girl in the middle in the gray is holding the bamboo shoot. All Lao people love bamboo! Bamboo soup is a special food to make for special people. They seem to think I'm a pretty special foreigner so I often get bamboo soup cooked for me. Unfortunately, it isn't my fave. :(

Now the boy in the hat is holding the bamboo. We're gonna play catch with it. Hunting for bamboo wasn't as exciting as it sounds. :) There's plenty of bamboo all over so we didn't have to go inside the forest really. One of the boys dug it up with like a pitch fork thing. We just watched.

It rained all weekend, the 3 days before we went. It actually spat (?) a little all day. There was water everywhere! This is behind the kid's house, on the way to the forest by some rice fields.

This is a river that I think came from the 3 days of rain. It may always be there, but if so, it's usually much smaller. They found crabs to make crab sauce to eat with rice. I've never eaten it.

Looking for more crabs and anything else we can find.

Walking home.

Cute hat!

More fun pics.

I'm a little too tall.

Playing cards is illegal I've been told a few times. If the police see you, they can throw you in jail. We went to the temple to play cards. Apparently if you play cards when someone dies, when someone is born or in a temple, the police can't arrest you. So we were safe! :) 

I also almost peed in the monk's bathroom, which I think would be one of the most unforgivable Buddhist sins! I asked where the bathroom was. My students pointed to the bathroom. I went in the bathroom. They came running in yelling, "You can't go in here! It's for the monks!" after they just pointed me in this direction. Thankfully they caught me before I went. :)