A close friend of mine was involved in a serious motorbike accident and was taken by ambulance to Udon Thani for medical treatment late Friday night. I went with him and have been going back and forth between Vientiane and Udon for the past few days so I haven’t had much free time.
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more photographs
A picture is worth 1,000 words, right?
From Thailand, and Laos.
This one is also from Thailand:
And a few from Vientiane:
He told me he loved me… (Koi Hak Chau!)
back from thailand
I have to say, I was happy to get back to Vientiane last night. Even though ethnically and culturally Isan (North Eastern Thailand) is very similar to Laos, I really felt like I was coming “home” when I crossed the Friendship Bridge last night.
Here is a map showing the geography of the places I am talking about:
I had such a wonderful time in Thailand! The meeting was very interesting and I was able to network and “liaise” with a lot of librarians from South East Asia.
I’ve uploaded some pictures from the conference here.
It was quite a wonderful and amazing experience.
Staying with Dr. Surithong was great! She and her husband are so nice! Now I have a Thai family too! I’m sending her the link to this blog so I have to say great things about her – but I mean it! I hope have the chance to come back and visit again soon. Maha Sarakham is a really nice town. I visited the Sirindhorn Isan Infommation Centre, part of the library that Dr. Surthong is the director of, and learned a lot about Northeastern Thailand. I also visited the Medicinal Mushroom Museum of Maha Sarakham University, and learned about the 2,000 differnt varieties of mushrooms found in NE Thailand.
On Saturday I went with Salvacion Arlante, the head of the Philippine University Libraries, to visit the “Isan Jurassic Park”, a really awesome dinosaur museum in NE Thailand, near Kalasin. It blew my mind how great this museum was. It was located on the site of a hill where archeologists had found the complete skeletons of 3 large dinosaurs from the cenozoic era or something.
The director of the Philipine University Libraries also suggested I submit a paper for the CONSAL conference in March in Hanoi:
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From 20-23 April 2009, the National Library of Vietnam in cooperation with the Library Department and Vietnamese Library Association will be hosting the XIV Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL XIV) at the Melia Hanoi Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam. The theme of the conference is TOWARDS DYNAMIC LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SERVICES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES |
Which I plan to do, and then hopefully can get invited to Vietnam in March!
I also met the president of the Thai Library Association, who suggested possibly arranging a workshop for the members of the association in Information Literacy in Bangkok, with myself as the invited resource person.
So, I met a lot of wonderful people, saw a lot of amazing things, ate a lot of delicious food, and learned a lot of interesting things. Which I think overall makes a trip very nice, huh?
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