day 14-sept 14

This morning we woke up, still on our homestay. P-Akong made breakfast in the minimal kitchen because the place we were going to go to had to take a family member to the hospital. He breakfast was so yummy. Fried noodles, eggs, pork, watermelon, rambuton (fruit). We cleaned up our belongings and packed up the truck and headed to the hills. We headed up to the View Point that oversees Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. On the drive up, we were waiting between two large vehicles because they were fixing the road with cement. Some of the road was super bumpy and it was like a roller coaster trying to stay stable and keep the luggage from falling. When we arrived, wow the sight was unspeakable. We had a few minutes to look around, then we started working. They have an herb that grows that produces yellow flowers, and they are putting them everywhere with now for the King and he celebration of his life. We weeded a field where weeds had grown among these herbs. 

















We took a break for lunch, and relax/free time, then went back to work for a couple more hours. We played with an elephant beetle and lunch. It was pretty big and made a funny noice when you touch it. We were playing 

 with it when it started walking backwards and then all of a sudden it put up its wings and took off. I screamed because it started me so much! It is a peaceful place. After working for the day, we walking around and found 

 a tree house like thing and was able to talk and share with each other. As well as look at the view and scenery. We came back to the group, I went and took a cold bucket shower. We had dinner, rice and egg soup, vegis and eggplant. After dinner we watched the sunset and a thunder and lightning storm. It was beautiful. Then mom showered then we played games. We played werewolf and farkle and cards. 





























During our farkle game, on of the natives asked us a question. We didn't understand what he was saying. It 
looked like mosquito nets in his hand so we asked if he wanted help putting them up. I said "sure" and he tried to repeat the word sure but really struggled with the phonetics. P told us to follow him, and the things in the bag weren't mosquito nets, they were Chinese lanterns. So we lit and set off multiple lanterns on top of the view point mountain. It was beautiful and hilarious. Some 
worked so well and others really struggled. Some burned while in the sky.  The whole valley is full of lights 
from the different countries. It is out of this world. 










Comments

  1. A. LivengoodSeptember 18, 2017 at 9:14 AM

    So cool. And that beetle reminds me of Dim, the rhinoceros beetle from Bugs Life. :)

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