Posted in Uncategorized, tagged central library, food, laos on Friday, 29 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We went to eat Pho today for lunch, and then on the way back the ladies wanted to stop and buy some fruit. When we got back to the office they took the lychees and bananas they had bought and arranged them as so:
Then they asked me “Do you know what it is?”
“I think so…”
“Have [...]
Posted in culture, eatin', work, tagged asian food, central library, e-resources, eifl.net, electronic information for libraries network, embryonic chicken eggs, jstor, laos, national university of laos, twitter, web 2.0 on Tuesday, 26 May, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Despite what my CV may say, I’m not really that familiar with Twitter, or many of these other “Web 2.0″ technologies. Considering I live in Laos and we barely even have an internet connection at the University, it’s surprising I even know what it is. My director certainly doesn’t. Yesterday when helping him complete an [...]
Posted in culture, livin', work, tagged central library, information literacy, LALIC, laos, library, nam ngun dam, vientiane on Monday, 18 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sorry for not having written in so long. Since I came back from Vietnam I have been incredibly busy, not only getting ready to go back home, but also visiting libraries around Vientiane.
When I first arrived back, Dr. Aree and some other experts from Thailand were here giving a UNESCO supported workshop on Information Literacy [...]
Posted in culture, tagged beerlao, celebration, central library, dancing, drinking, international women's day, lao dancing, laos, vientiane, women on Saturday, 14 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
International Women’s Day, March 8th, is a big holiday here in Laos. It’s one of my favorite holidays as well, and I don’t know why it’s barely even mentioned in the USA.
Firstly, all throughout the week women are encouraged to take time off work to see a doctor for a yearly health check-up. This [...]
Posted in culture, work, tagged american imperialism, bombs, central library, laos, vietnam war on Wednesday, 18 February, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My colleagues at the Central Library are all extremely wonderful, kind, generous people and I have really enjoyed getting to know them since I have been here. One of my favorite colleagues is Mrs. Bounsalong. She is about 47 years old, and has 2 kids. She is really funny and always making [...]
Posted in culture, livin', work, tagged central library, laos, national holiday, panties on Monday, 1 December, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow, 2nd December, is the Laos National Holiday. In preparation for the holiday, they have draped Lao flags everywhere, and also hammer and sickle “go communism!” flags adorn every official building in town.
The library organized a day of “clean up the library” gardening, in which Mr. Somephone climbed to the top of the trees outside [...]
Posted in culture, livin', work, tagged beerlao, central library, rainbow, teacher's day on Friday, 10 October, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, Tuesday October 7th, was National Teacher’s Day. This means that all the public schools and university was closed. On Monday, right after lunch, Mrs Bounsalome came into my office and said “The director has gone to the city for the a meeting all afternoon. We want to have a celebration for teacher’s day. We [...]
Posted in work, tagged central library, electronic gate, national university of laos, salary on Friday, 3 October, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the head dude’s here at the Central Library left a few weeks ago to go finish his master’s in Italy. He e-mailled me and asked how things were going… so I casually mentioned that I was in the process of helping the director write a grant proposal to buy an electronic gate. Well. [...]
Posted in work, tagged central library, electronic gate, website on Monday, 29 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I guess I am settling into things here and getting used to the idea of living in Laos, now, after 3 months. The reason I know this is because I feel like I don’t really have any exciting news to post about.
I am still working on the library website. I created this list of [...]
Posted in work, tagged central library on Thursday, 25 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s so cute I had to post it.
This guy is the youngest son of one of the ladies I work with. We like to say that he is my brother, since we like to say that his mother is my mother. Don’t try to steal any books from the library – or you will have [...]
