Sa bai dee!! It’s my second day in the office today so I am taking a break from reading the technical training manual to write I’ve uploaded some more piccies onto my Flickr site (http://www.flickr.com/photos/susieblue) - Facebook rejects my attemp…

do you think that white people will ever realize that just because their husband/wife is black, that doesn’t mean they aren’t racist? and it is embarrassing how often i hear white people say, “i’m not racist, 3 of my best friends are black.” by the way…

I’ve no idea why we call these greens mustard greens. In Laotian they are called pak gaht. They grow pretty well in the cooler part of the year, and are a common winter vegetable. Here in Colorado they are one of the first plants up in the spring, an…

Yesterday’s route in grey, today’s route in blue, & approximate location of PS’s village in green circle:

As arranged, PS met the cat at 7:00AM to return it the blue backpacker bible & run through the pronounciation of some of the English words he had copied down. The first word he asked the cat about was ‘diarrhea’ =P Also had to explain to him the difference between ‘went’ (bpai laew) & ‘