INtroduction to WSC OVE'08; Laos

• Laos = lao people's democratic republic..
• capital is vientiane, tts where i went to for the 1st 1 week.
• their language are mostly French and Lao + abit thai..
• religion is standart, Buddism.
• time zone wise is UTC +7. meaning if singapore is 8pm, they are 7pm.
• places we covered for 1st week+ is the capital, Vientiane.. following 4-5 days we went is a village called PongSong village. and final last day we travel to Vang Vieng, a tourism area with lots of AngMos..
• at vientiane we met several nice lao high school student who accompanied us thru out the week, at night bringing us to nice food place n dine with us.
• at pongsong village, we stayed with the villagers and UOL(*university of Laos) students also stay with us and share their experiences with us.they are our interpreter..hahhaa..
• be4 we left, they came to Lao airport n see us off also.so nice.
• S$1 = 6211 kip..
• their plug used is those 2-pin types. european type.
• during december is their dry season, and now is their raining season, every night rain..wah kao..haha
• well, not much of internet cafe u can find at the village. generally the girls there wore alot to cover their flesh up. and women shld nv touch a monk.
• we eat with hands..wooo.. sticky rice.