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  • Life in Laos

    Neighborhood tour: The bakery

    by Lisa November 3, 2010
    November 3, 2010

    It’s another gorgeous day here today. Warm sunshine, shiny green leaves, and a playful breeze. I’m finally comfortable in a tee shirt and linen pants, but most Lao are wearing …

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    Changing weather, and voltage

    by Lisa November 1, 2010
    November 1, 2010

    People have been telling me ever since we arrived that it does cool down here for a couple of months each year. Before the last couple of days, however, I …

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  • Life in Laos

    World’s Worst Elephant Mahout

    by Lisa October 15, 2010
    October 15, 2010

    Mike and I went on an elephant mahout training course yesterday. Yes, seriously. Here’s how it happened. Last week we came back two days early from our time in Cambodia …

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  • Humanitarian work

    When Helping is Hard (Part 1): That sort of decision

    by Lisa September 29, 2010
    September 29, 2010

    This story starts in May. In May, Mike was in Laos in the middle of his first seven weeks at his new job. I was in LA wrapping up my …

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  • Life in Laos

    Friendly Companions from Siberia

    by Lisa September 20, 2010
    September 20, 2010

    Last week our neighbor’s computer was stolen. His front door is less than ten steps from ours – his house is a mirror image of ours – and when he …

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  • Life in Laos

    When Laos is hard

    by Lisa August 31, 2010
    August 31, 2010

    It’s Tuesday morning at 7:20am. I’m sitting in a dark kitchen with the door wide open behind me, because there’s no electricity. There hasn’t been any since 1:15am when it …

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