A little taste of paradise! August 2015 in Vientiane.

I can't help sending you a few pictures of my garden that is so lovely, a little green paradise!

I have overcome my first apprehensions of the place - I mean the surroundings of my house- I was fearing all sorts of animals, insects, spiders or snakes, and have ultimately concluded they were not that harmful nor ferocious, that micro ants in my cereals were edible, a lezard in my refrigerator had lost its way, and a moth in my shower was just as scared as I was before ! There was a snake yesterday on the cimented path going to the back of my house. The wild black cat, wandering around the house, was staring at him with mewlings of distress, the snake rose his head, threatening the cat, eventually the snake turned back and slithered away... Thank you black cat for taking car of my yard. Now, I feed him!

The beginning of class for teachers was 2 weeks ago. We are a team of 34 teachers, half Lao, half foreigners - another French girl, 2 girls from Switzeland, one from Holland, the others are from England, South Africa, the US and Australia. Nice people overall, nice boss, rather helpful. We've done preparation work for two weeks, classroom decoration,  lesson plans. All this takes actually a lot of time. The beginning of class for the kids is next monday. Can't wait to see the kids. Mine will be 8 to 9 years old with very little English exposure. I also have a little apprehension of course. This will be the next chapter...