The Big Move

About two weeks ago, I moved out of my host family’s house and into a cute, comfortable house where I will be living for the rest of my time here with Wendy, another MCCer. So far, I have really enjoyed the chance to have some alone time after 3 months of being with people almost constantly, especially near the end of my time with my host family, when I was trying to spend as much time with them as possible. It is also wonderful to have more freedom (especially now that I have a motorbike license) to go out in the evenings and do things with friends and to host friends at my house. So I’m seeing the benefits of my new living situation. Yet at the same time, I was very sad to leave my host family. Besides being such a significant part of my experience in Laos so far, I have grown to love them more than I would have thought possible in just a few months. So here are some pictures of them. These are from Lao National Day in early December. Everyone has the day off, so our whole family went to a waterfall. The actual waterfall part turned out to be tiny, but it was a beautiful and relaxing place to spend the afternoon.

posing with Nampung