Sorry for the lack of updates. Recently the weather has been somewhat schizophrenic. There is normally atleast one daily downpour and it can last from about 5 minutes to a full hour plus most of the time they are only 30 minutes. This has cause our internet to fail at the house. We had speculated that Chanta hadnt paid our internet bill and they cut it off because it happened so abruptly around a week ago. She claims she paid the bill. If we get it fixed soon I will try to keep the updates regular.
I have spent some serious time at the library lately using some sparse internet and doing some teaching. I started with teaching english to Lanoy who lives in chantas house. I also taught one of the library staff how to play chess. I am not very good but I understand how to pieces move so after his third game he beat me. Actually not but he wasnt too bad for a first timer. I have also set up a blog for the library which I included a link to in the helpful links section. I just taught Chanta how to use it so the first post should be up in the next week or so. This way after I am gone the people who care about the library boats and the great work CLI is doing can keep following. I am thinking I may start trying to have an open hour or two a day at the library for people to come and work on their english with a native english speaker. I may not be fluent and any of you who read the blog know my grammar is terrible. But that being said conversational help is a big one plus I can give some simple spelling help.
On the coaching side of things Bob met with the sports committee and established that they didn't hate the job we did. They should have a full sport committee meeting discussing the games and the year ahead next week. The will try to hire a new Lao head coach and that person may or may not be amenable to using us the way No did. The game of politics is an interesting one. Tom is currently giving workouts to Tia who was our star pupil and ended up being to old to run at the high school games. He will be running at the National Games. There are no sprinters training right now so I am just working out for myself.
I was sick a few days ago and just weighed myself this morning down to a slim 60.5kg I will let you do the math on your own. The reason I weighed myself is because Justin (a falang who is a science teacher doing a project at the library) wanted to start a health class of sorts in the library. I said I would help so we are calculating weight height and BMI. The BMI is pretty dumb because Lanoy weight her self and thought she was huge at 50kg which is about 112 and she is 5'3. She thinks she is fat but BMI for all of Laos would say they are probably under weight. Who knows if anything its a good intro into health related issues.
Thats all I got for now if new things come up I will blog it. Remember to check out lpblibraryboat.blogspot.com
