Likely a victim of the Lao sense of humour

February 17th, 2010

There are a lot of Chinese tourists in town. I’m told that the Chinese take a week or two off for Chinese New Year (which makes sense). Tricia (the main English teacher at the Monk School) saw a woman with a rice basket on her head yesterday. This is the kind of basket the Lao use as a serving container for sticky rice. I laughed long and hard and thought “note to self - always ask if you don’t know what something is.” Then I realized, she probably DID ask the Lao vendor what it was. It would be just like a Lao to tell her it was a hat. The Lao have a wicked sense of humour. Tourists beware…