We spent most of a day visiting Tin Keo Village. It is really two villages, the larger one consisting of many Laotian families and the smaller one made up of nine Hmong families. They live side by side in cooperation and harmony.
The houses below are tremendously varied, but all have electrical power.
Here is a home under construction. I wonder what it will look like.
The village blacksmith
gets help from his son
and his wife, who is using the equivalent of a bellows to heat the fire.
A few village girls waiting for someone
Young boys playing with homemade toys
A woman making a basket
Crafts for sale
A cloth detail
Deep frying tempura in an oil-filled wok over an open fire.
The highlight of the day was a school visit to a classroom of 6-year-olds. They broke out of the lineup and led our group by the hand into the school.
The children were sparkling!
Four rows of numbers: laotian numbers, western numbers, the names of the laotian numbers, and symbols for the amount.
They were used in a brief arithmetic lesson at the blackboard.
Some of the ladies in our group led the children in the hokey pokey.
Irene passed out some of our photographs, which we had brought as gifts for the children.
After the school visit, we were invited by a Hmong family into their home.
We were greeted by two brothers.
The younger brother played a wind instrument called a "can," pronounced "kahn," by our guide while dancing. It may also be known as a "qeej." Our guide indicated that the music and dance have a religious significance.
A pair of Hmong twins awaited us outside.
The multitude of photographs in this posting reflect how wonderful a day we had.
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