Our Neighborhood
our home
We have not mentioned much about where we have been living during these two months. We have a very nice house. We enjoy the many flowers; some are new to us but many we have seen elsewhere in the world. The woman who helps at the house is an incredible cook and often can prepare a meal for 15-20 in half a day with the help of just one person.
The MCC office is a short 2 minute walk down the road. Beside the office is another building housing the Mittapab office. Mittapab is a group organized by MCC to work at peace issues. Many young people are involved here and one weekend they “spruced up” the wall outside the office.
Every Monday morning we have an MCC staff meeting discussing what we will be doing the coming week. At noon the Lao staff often buy food and bring it to the office to eat together. We sometimes join them but usually prefer to get out of the office for a while at noon. Robin has been a big hit here in the office and provides many distractions. She is the 3-month old daughter of service workers. Her mother has just returned to work after maternity leave.
fruit for smoothies
The street is a mixture of homes and small businesses. A great fruit stand is just next door. She makes delicious fruit smoothies. A few doors farther along is one of our favorite lunch spots. They make a good “khao soi” – a type of noodle soup. A tall building is in the process of being built not far from us. The building across the street which had been a guesthouse when we arrived is being transformed into a restaurant. There are “grand” homes and there are very “simple” homes and there are “interesting” homes. There are large business buildings and there are small “home” businesses. The neighborhood Wat was shown in our blog about Buddhist Lent.
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- our home
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- view from the verandah
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- lobster claw flower
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- spider lily
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- cooking for 20
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- sticky rice & barbecue chicken
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- our kitchen
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- our office
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- Mittapab fence
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- Monday morning meeting
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- office lunch
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- Emily & Robin
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- Robin
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- fruit for smoothies
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- smoothie stand
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- khao soi cooks
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- khao soi
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- khao soi
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- building site
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- restaurant in the making
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- neighborhood home
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- neighborhood home
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- neighborhood home
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- neighborhood street
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- neighborhood home
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- lunch spot
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- flower stall
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- our bread stand