Sometimes, Vientiane, Sometimes You Really Shine
Vientiane often tries me. Vientiane often bores me. Vientiane often makes me ache for so many other places I’d rather be, and I often wonder where that rather would specifically…
Trying to Get off of the Laos Blacklist with a Trip and a Train
I’m getting on a train tonight and leaving the country for the first time since I came here. I’m hoping I can come back to Laos in 2014 and have…
Vientiane in December, or, a Tentative Turning Point
I figured it was time for an update of sorts considering how generally gloomy I was about Vientiane in this post and yeah, for sure, in this one, too. Okay, let’s get real,…
And So This is Christmas, and I Keep Forgetting
All of my lessons for the next week are planned, so I’m taking advantage of a rare opportunity for solitude at work by grading upstairs in our classroom. Well, I…
A Post About Nothing but My Freaking Out
This might be one of those posts that I write and then promptly delete before I ever hit post, but I’ll write anyway and if it sees the light of…
Right Now in Laos: Book Reports and Bedtimes, Passed over Motorcycles and Lost Novels
After two days of grading book reports I’m still not finished. I gave it up for the night, took a shower (a strangely daily occurrence now, instead of… well… it…
